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ot lay another that feafon. The Greenlanders 
blow the {kin which is between the jaws of the Auk, 
into a bladder, and faften it to one end of their darts. 
Part of the upper bill is covered with fhort, black 
feathers, like velvet ; it is very ftrong, and between 
the eye and the bill is a large white fot; the 
neck, back, tail, and wings, are black. Their 
fkins are fewed together for clothing. In the feas 
where they are found, they feldom wander far 
from the land; and when failors fee them, they 
always gue(s that they are near thé fhore. - 
The Razor Bill is fmaller than the great Auk. 
| Jts bill is black, and- marked with four furrows 
onthe upper, and thtee on the lower mandible. 
From each eye to the bill is a line of white. 
They are in great numbers at Flamborough 
| Head, in Yorkshire ; and at Caldey Ifland, near 
the coaft-in Meeibrokethire and in the Ifle of 
: 
- Anglefea, and many other lands, and = ache of the 
Britifh coaft, where they breed. 
They are birds of paflage, and they come with 
“the Guillemot i in the {pring, and leave us in win- 
ter. A few of them are feen j in February, or’ - 
March, as if fent before, to give fome account to 
the reft : they go again, and fome time after 
they come in great numbers. If the weather be 
flormy, many of them die in their paflage, and are 
B , thrown 

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