razorbill auk

British

/ ˈreɪzəˌbɪl /

noun

a common auk, Alca torda , of the North Atlantic, having a thick laterally compressed bill with white markings

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Mr. MacCulloch writes me word he has a note of a Razorbill Auk shot in Guernsey on the 14th February, 1847; this, of course, is only a young Razorbill of the previous year, which had not at that time fully developed its bill.

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