. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . PYGOPODES. ( 295 ) ALCIDJE. THE RAZOR-BILL. COMMON AUK, MAREOT, SCOUT, SEA CROW. Alca tor \)z Coulter ^z\s. The billows burst, in ceaseless flow,Upon the precipice below. The steepy rock, and frantic tide,Approach of human step denied. Sir Walter Scott. Selby, writing on the birds observed at St. Abbs Head onthe 18th of July 1832, says: Upon the ledges of therocks the Guillemots {Uria troile) and Eazor-bills (Alca
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . PYGOPODES. ( 295 ) ALCIDJE. THE RAZOR-BILL. COMMON AUK, MAREOT, SCOUT, SEA CROW. Alca tor \)z Coulter ^z\s. The billows burst, in ceaseless flow,Upon the precipice below. The steepy rock, and frantic tide,Approach of human step denied. Sir Walter Scott. Selby, writing on the birds observed at St. Abbs Head onthe 18th of July 1832, says: Upon the ledges of therocks the Guillemots {Uria troile) and Eazor-bills (Alcatorda) were seen in great numbers, ranged in order, tierabove tier, and looking at a distance like armies of pigmies;these upon the least alarm utter their peculiar curring kindof note, which, when mixed with the screams of the SeaGull and Kittiwake, and heard from a distance, or softenedby the murmurs of the waves, produces a wild though notdisagreeable species of concert well according with thenature of the scenery which surrounds them. ^ Hepburn, in his Account of the Birds found atSt. Abbs Head on the 20th of June 1851, remarks that: The Eazor-bill (Alca
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