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The dovekies and marrocks, of course, all flew away; but we were too proud to do that.
Why, the very marrocks and dovekies have got wings, the vulgar creatures, and poor little ones enough they are; and my own cousins too, the razor-bills, who are gentlefolk born, and ought to know better than to ape their inferiors."
Some have broad bills, with a white stripe on it, and cry something like the moor-hens at home. Those are razor-bills. And what are those who say "marrock," something like a parrot? The ones with thin bills? they are guillemots, "murres" as we call them in Devon: but in some places they call them "marrocks," from what they say. And each has a little baby bird swimming behind it.
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