THE 
GREAT AWK. 
Generic Character. 
Beak toothlefs, fhort, compreffed, convex, often 
tranfverfly falcated. 
Nojtrils linear. 
Tongue almoft the length of the bill. 
Feet trida&yle, webbed, without hind toe. 
Specific Character, &c. ■ 
AWK with compreffed furrowed beak, with an 
oval white fpot on each fide the head before 
the eyes. 
GREAT AWK. 
Lath. fyn. 3. p. 311. 
Northern Penguin. 
Edw. 147. 
The Alcse or Awks feem to hold the fame rank in 
the northern hemifphere with the Penguins in the 
fouthern : the prefent fpecies* in particular* from the 
remarkable fmallnefs of its wings, is extremely al¬ 
lied to the Penguins* being equally incapacitated 
both for flight and for fteady walking. It is a native 
of the moft northern parts of Europe and Alia, and 
is not often feen on fhore, except in the breeding 
feafon, when it comes to depofit and hatch its egg, 
(for it is faid to lay but one,) on fome bare fpot on 
the edge of the coaft. It is about the fize of a goofe # 
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