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'■ Razor-bills'“Gen/Syn. v. p. 319. N® 5.
.♦ .RAZOR-BILL. H E method that this bird takes 1 fifhing Is rather Angular,
often diving and catching feveral fmall filh, which it is ob-
ferved to range on each fide of the bill, with the head in the
mouth, and the tails hanging out on each fide o f the b ill; and
when the mouth can hold no more, the bird retires to the rocks
to fwallow them at leifure.
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G e n u s L X X X V . G U I L L E M O T .
Foolilh Guillemot, Gen. mm vi# p. 329. N* 1.
A Singular circumftance has been obferved of this bird, which
is, that when taken out of fight of the fea, and turned loofe,
it does not attempt to f ly ; but as foon as carried within reach of
the fea, it flies thereto very readily; and if it is put into frefli water,
it will fwim about, but feems unwilling to dive, or, if forced
thereto, does not to any great depth, and diredtly rifes again to
the furface: whether this is owing to the want o f proper food contained
in the water, or repugnant to it as an element unpleafing
to its nature, cannot be determined. This bird, like the Razors
bill, carries the filh with the tails hanging out o f the bill *.
Black Guillemot* Gen.Syn. vi. p. 332, N?3*
» T H E Black Guillemot is common in the Bay of Dublin, which it
does not forfake the whole year f .
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