. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . ength, and covered at the base with short, velvet-like feathers. Theupper parts of the plumage are black, and the lower parts white, with aspot of white between the bill and the eyes, and an oblong stripe of thesame on the wings, which are too short for flight. The bird is also a verybad walker, but swims and dives well. It is, however, observed by seamen, 1 Aha impenuis, Lin. The genus Alca has the bill straight, broad, compressed, muchbent towards the tip, bot
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . ength, and covered at the base with short, velvet-like feathers. Theupper parts of the plumage are black, and the lower parts white, with aspot of white between the bill and the eyes, and an oblong stripe of thesame on the wings, which are too short for flight. The bird is also a verybad walker, but swims and dives well. It is, however, observed by seamen, 1 Aha impenuis, Lin. The genus Alca has the bill straight, broad, compressed, muchbent towards the tip, both mandibles half covered with feathers, and grooved near the Ciint, the upper hooked, the lower forming a salient angle; nostrils lateral, marginalear, situated near the middle of the bill, almost entirely closed by a membrane, andcovered with feathers; legs short, placed lar behind, with three toes directed forwards,and pahnated; vings short. AVES-- RAZORBILL. ..PENGUIN. 681 that it is never seen out of soundings, so that its appearance serves as aninfallible direction to land. It feeds on the lump fish, and others of the same. size, and is frequent on the coasts of Norway, Greenland, Newfoundland,&c. It lays its eggs close to the sea-mark. THE RAZORBILL i Is not above half the size of the preceding, which it resembles both in iormand plumage, except that it has the use of its wings, and lays its egg (foreach of these species lays but one) on the bare top of a precipice, and fastensit by a cement, so as to prevent its rolling off. It is pretty common on thecoasts of England during the summer season. THE PENGUIN. The penguins seem to hold the same place in tne southern parts of theworld, as the auks do in the north, neither of them having ever beenobserved within the tropics. The wings of the larger species do not enablethem to rise out of the water, but serve them rather as paddles, to helpthem forward when they attempt to move swiftly, and in a manner walkalong the surface of
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