. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . r-bills, and very little curved, perfectly fmooththroughout the whole of its furface, except a flightindentation at the bafe: infide of the mouth of apale flefh-colour: the top of the head, taking inthe eyes, part of the neck, the back, wings, andtail, are black; on the fides of the neck the blackcomes forward fo as almofl to meet on the fore part:the fides of the head, throat, fore part of the neck,and all beneath, white: from behind the eye adufky black mark tends to the hinder part of thehead, as in the LefTer Guillemot; the white
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . r-bills, and very little curved, perfectly fmooththroughout the whole of its furface, except a flightindentation at the bafe: infide of the mouth of apale flefh-colour: the top of the head, taking inthe eyes, part of the neck, the back, wings, andtail, are black; on the fides of the neck the blackcomes forward fo as almofl to meet on the fore part:the fides of the head, throat, fore part of the neck,and all beneath, white: from behind the eye adufky black mark tends to the hinder part of thehead, as in the LefTer Guillemot; the white on thefides of the head is lefs pure than that on the underparts : all the fecondary quills are tipped with white;and the primaries are of a deeper black than theothers: legs brownifh black. Linnaeus fays the legsare red, but no other author records it. Latham fur-ther obferves, This, from its external marks,fhould appear to be a different fpecies from the Ra-zor-bill, but we are pretry certain it is no other thanthe young of that bird. 168 BRITISH PUFFIN. MULLET, COULTERNEB, SEA-PARROT, POPE, ORWILLOCK. [^ka ^r8ka, Lin.—Le Macareux, BufF.) The Puffin weighs about twelve ounces, andmeafures twelve inches in length, and twenty-onein breadth. Its fingular bill looks not unlike akind of fheath flipped over both mandibles, and,from its appearance, the bird is not improperly-named Coultemeb, or Knife-bill. At the bafe,where it is about an inch and a half in depth, it isrimmed \vith a white callous border, the two cor-ners of which projed above the brow, and belowthe chin. It is about the fame in length, curvedtowards the point, comprelTed vertically, very flat,and tranfverfely furrowed on the fides j the half of BRITISH BIRDS. 169 it adjoining to the head is fmooth, and of a fine leadcoloured blue ; the other part, to the tip, red : thenoftrils are placed in long narrow flits, near the edgeof the bill: the corners of the mouth, when clofedare curioufly puckered, and form a
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