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not lay another’ that feafon.'» The Greenlanders 
blow the fkin which is between the} jaws of the Auk, 
intoa 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 fpot; 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 © : 
>. ftom the land; and when failors fee them, they 
og guefs that they are near the fhore. 
The Razor Bill is fmaller than the great Auk. 
a th bill ‘is “black, and marked with four furrows 
"on the upper, and three on the lower mandible. 
From each eye to the’ bill 1s a line of white. 
They are in great numbers at Flamborough 
Head, in Yorkthire ; and at Caldey Ifland, near 
the coaft in Pembrokefhire; and in the Ile of 
-Anglefea, and many other iflands, and parts of the 
 Britifh coaft, where they breed. 
ahs ‘They are birds of paflage, and they come neal 
the Guillemot in the fpring, and leave us in win- : 
ter. A few of them are feen in F ebruary, 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 
ab many of them die in their paflage, and are 
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