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BRITISH BIRDS. 
and the Fero Ifles, and when the winter fets in, they 
migrate fouthward along the fliores of Scotland and 
England, where fome of them remain and breed. 
The neft is formed in the deep crevices of the rocks 
which overhang the fea : the eggs are of a grey co- 
lour : fome orjiithologifts alfert that the female lays 
only one, others that flie lays two. They commonly 
fly in pairs, and fo low that they raife the furface of 
the fea by the flapping of their narrow wings. 
The Greenlanders eat the flefli of this bird, and 
ufe its Ikin for cloathing, and the legs as a bait for 
their fifhing lines. Ray, Albin, Willoughby, and 
Edwards have named it the Greenland Dove, or Sea 
Turtle. In the Orkney Iflands it is called the Tyfte. 
The foregoing figure was taken from a drawing 
prefented to the author. 
