An Ornithologist’ s Summer in labrador 
M.AbJotbFrazar. 
Alca torda , Razor-billed Auk. Common ev¬ 
erywhere, much more so than the preceding 
species, owing to its habit of breeding in less 
frequented places and concealing its eggs in 
cracks and crevices among the rocks where 
it is not so apt to be disturbed. Also very 
frequently lays its eggs in the mouths of in¬ 
habited Puffin’s holes a few inches or a foot 
from the mouth. This species is exceedingly 
gregarious; lays generally one egg, though 
in about twenty instances I found two. The 
bird picks two bare spots on its breast. 
O.&O. XII. Jan. 1887. p. 3 
