BIRDS. 
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ever they fatten, as not to be eafily difengaged. 
Their noife, when taken, is very difagreable ; 
being like the efforts of a dumb perfon to fpeak. 
The winter refidence of this whole genus (one 
fpecies excepted) is unknown : it is probably they 
SPECIES II 
Penguin wormii. Wil. orn. 323. 
Rail fyn. av. 119. 
Edzv. av. 147. 
Martin's voy. St. Kilda. 27. 
Avis, Gare dicta. Sib. Scot. III. 22 ? 
Ccording to Mr. Martin, this bird 
breeds on the ifle of St. Kilda , ap¬ 
pearing there the beginning of May, 
and retiring the middle of June. He fays it lays 
one egg, fpotted black, green and dark ; and if 
that egg is taken away, it will not lay another 
that feafon. A later writer * informs us, that 
it does not vifit that ifland annually, but fome- 
times keeps away for feveral years together ; and 
adds, that it lays its egg clofe to the fea mark , 
being incapable, by reafon of the ftiortnefs of its 
wings, to mount higher. The length of this 
bird, to the end of its toes, is three feet; the bill, 
to the corner of the mouth, four inches and a 
* Macaulay s hi ft. St. Kilda . p. 156. 
SPECIES 
Razor-bill, auk, murre. Wil. orn. 
3 2 3 - 
Rati fyn. av. 119. 
The Falk. Martins voy. St. Kilda. 
33 - 
HESE fpecies weigh twenty-two ounces 
and a half. The length about eighteen 
inches : the breadth twenty-feven. The 
bill is two inches long, arched, very ftrong and 
(harp at the edges ; the color black : the upper 
[Clafs II. 
may live on the fea, in fome more temperate cli¬ 
mate, remote from land; forming thofe multi¬ 
tudes of birds that navigators obferve in many 
parts of the ocean : which are always found there 
at certain feafons, retiring only at breeding time. 
* " t 
The Penguin. 
Alca major. Briffon av. VI. 85, 
fab. 7. 
Alca impennis. Lin. fyft. 130. 
Goirfugel. Clufti exot. 367. 
quarter ; part of the upper mandible is covered 
with ftiort, black, velvet like feathers } it is very 
ftrong, comprefled and marked with feveral fur¬ 
rows that tally both above and below : between 
the eyes and the bill on each fide is a large white 
lpot : the reft of the head, the neck, back, tail 
and wings, are of a gloffy black : the tips of the 
lefler quil feathers white : the whole under fide of 
the body white : the legs black. The wings of 
this bird are fo fmall, as to be ufelefs for flight: 
the length, from the tip of the longeft quil fea¬ 
thers to the firft joint, being only four inches and 
a quarter. 
III. The Auk. 
Edzv. av. 358. Fig. 2. 
Alca, Brijfon av . VI. 89. Tab. 8* 
Fig. 1, 
Alca torda, Lin. Jyft. 130. 
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mandible is marked with four tranfverfe grooves , 
the lower with three; the wideft of which is white, 
and crofles each mandible. The infideof the mouth 
is of a fine pale yellow: from the eye to the bill 
is a line of white : the head, throat, and whole 
upper 
