. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . DIRECTOHV TO IJIJiDS OF KASTEKN NOKTU AMEKICA. 17 1. RAZOR-BILLED AUK, A. torda. lon^: blackabove; white beneath; narrow white wing band; brownish onhead, neck, and throat, fig. 12. In Fig. 12. winter the throat is white. Younghave a smaller bill without groovesor bands. Nests in cavities aboutrocks ; eggs, 1,2, white, heavily mottied with brown and umber. Breedsthe last week in June. A trim, neat,bird, rather unsocial, and quitequarrelsome. Occurs in summerfrom Grand Menan northward; mi-grates south late in Oct. ; wintersfrom Mass.

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. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . DIRECTOHV TO IJIJiDS OF KASTEKN NOKTU AMEKICA. 17 1. RAZOR-BILLED AUK, A. torda. lon^: blackabove; white beneath; narrow white wing band; brownish onhead, neck, and throat, fig. 12. In Fig. 12. winter the throat is white. Younghave a smaller bill without groovesor bands. Nests in cavities aboutrocks ; eggs, 1,2, white, heavily mottied with brown and umber. Breedsthe last week in June. A trim, neat,bird, rather unsocial, and quitequarrelsome. Occurs in summerfrom Grand Menan northward; mi-grates south late in Oct. ; wintersfrom Mass. to N. J.; goes north inearly March. This species holds itstail upright when swimming. Cries,loud and harsh. b. Murres. Uria. Differ from a in being more slender, with a pointed bi-lwhich is not much compressed nor at all ridged, figs. 13, , brownish or black above: white beneath ; wing band, Fis. O, A, a. 1. 1-8.

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