. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . astic. For the sake of this handful of feathers,according to Audubon, thousands of these birds are killed inLabrador, and their bodies strewed on the shore. The islands between the small port of Little Macatine andBrador abound with these and other allied marine birds, whoseeggs are collected by the inhabitants of Nova Scotia. For thispurpose they commence by trampling on all they find laid, andthe following day begin to collect those which are newly dropped ;and such is the abundance of the eg
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . astic. For the sake of this handful of feathers,according to Audubon, thousands of these birds are killed inLabrador, and their bodies strewed on the shore. The islands between the small port of Little Macatine andBrador abound with these and other allied marine birds, whoseeggs are collected by the inhabitants of Nova Scotia. For thispurpose they commence by trampling on all they find laid, andthe following day begin to collect those which are newly dropped ;and such is the abundance of the eggs that Mr. Audubon fell inwith a party of three men who, in the course of six weeks, hadcollected thirty thousand dozen, of the estimated value of fourhundred pounds sterling. Beyond Brador the Murres andPuffins were no longer found. The Razor-bill breeds on the Atlantic coast from the Bay ofFundy to the northern part of Labrador, though very few exam-ples are found in summer south of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Inwinter these birds wander along the coast of New England and theadjacent GREAT AUK. GREAT PENGUIN. GARE IMPENNIS. Char. Upper parts black, a white patch in front of the eyes; underparts white; sides of the throat dark buff; wings little more than rudi-mentary. Length about 30 inches. Afst. Among the shingle on a sea-washed beach, sometimes at a con-siderable distance from the water. The birds probably make no nest. E,i^^_^s. Probably i ; creamy white or buff, sometimes tinged with green,marked with dark brown and gray ; average size X The Great Auk, or Northern Penguin, inhabits the highestlatitudes of the globe, dwelling by choice and instinct amidst GREAT AUK. 415 the horrors of a region covered with eternal ice. Here itis commonly found upon the floating masses of the gelidocean, far from land, to which alone it resorts in the seasonof procreation. Deprived of the use of wings, degraded as it were from thefeathered ranks, and almos
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