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LABRADOR A.
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Place.
the head white: throat, neck, and all the upper parts of the
body, wings, and tail, black: bread: and under parts white : legs
orange.
The other fex has the bill more (lender : the crown of the
head brown black : (ides of the head white, palling backwards
almod to the nape: thighs afh-coloured : the-red as in the lad-
defcribed.
This was met with at Bird IJland, between AJia and America.
In the collection of Sir Jofeph Banks.
Labrador Auk, Ara. Zod. N° 428.'
Br. Mu/.
g I Z E o f the Puffin: length near twelve inches. The bill near
an inch and a quarter in length, much carinated at top, a little
convex, but more narrow than in any of the Auk genus; the upper
mandible is dulky red; the lower whitilh, marked with a
black (pot, and has an angle as in the Gull: place of the nodrils
covered with a dulky (kin; the nodrils themfelves a flit near
the edge . all the upper parts of the plumage are black : the
fides of the head dulky white: throat dulky: the under parts
white : wings and tail dulky; the lad very Ihort: legs red.
A fpecimen of this is in the Britijh Mujeum, fuppofed to come
from the coad of Labrador.
Alca torda, Lin. Sy/l. i. p. 210. i .—-Faun. Suec. N° 139.— Scop. Ann.i.
K* 94.— Brun. N° 100.— Muller, p. 16.
LePingoin, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 89. 2. pi. 8. fig. 1 .— £«ƒ. Oif. ix. p. 390.
pi. 27.—-P/. Enl. 1,003. IO04.
Razor-bill, Auk, or Murre, Rati Syn. p. 119, A* 3.—-Will, Orn. p. 323.
pi. 64.'—Albin, 3. pi. 95.— Edvj. pi. 358. fig. 2 .— Br. Zool. ii.
N° 230. pi. 82.— Arft. Zool. N° 423.
Br. Mu/. Lev. Muf. '
J ^ E N G T H eighteen inches: breadth twenty-feven. Bill two
inches long, black, curved at the point; the feathers coming
greatly forwards at the bafe, and crofted with four tranfverfe grooves,
one of which is white, forming an oblique band on both mandibles:
infide of the mouth yellow: from the bafe of the forehead
to the eye a narrow line of white: the reft of the head, chin*
throat, back part of the neck, back, wings, and tail, black : under
parts from the breaft white : the greater wing coverts tipped
with white, forming a band on the wings : legs black»
Thefe birds, like the Auk, recognife their old breeding-places
before they fettle thereon to breed: appear firft the beginning of
February, but do not fettle , on their breeding-places with an intent
to lay till the beginning of May, when they are met with •
on moft of the high craggy coafts of England where our mer-
cilefs lhooters go to try the ufe of the gun, too frequently leaving
many hundreds of thefe and the Guillemots, after being maimed,
to die by flow degrees at the foot of the rocks; for they are fo
ftupid as to fuffer themfelves to be fhot at one after another.
They are called by fbme, Parrot-billed Willocks; and lay one egg
on the bare rock, which they fo fix by cement* to the furface,.
* See. Arfl. Zool. p. 510^
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