Capt. San1Nx's Memoir on the Birds of Greenland, &c. 537 
m his Fauna Groelandica ; but the bird itself does not appear to 
have fallen under his notice: he was aware, however, that it could 
not be referred to his Tringa Lobata. This species is only known 
to British naturalists in its winter state. 
13. Atca ALLE. Little Auk.. 
A. Alle. Gmel. i. 554. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 705: Briin. no. 106. Fabr. 84. Faun. Suet. 
O. Mull. no. 142.—Little Auk. Lath. Syn. v. 327. Arct. Zool. ii. 512. Mont. 
Dict. & Supp. Br. Zool. à. 158. Wil. Am. Orn. ix. 94.—Uria Alle. Temm. 611. 
This species was abundant in Baffin’s Bay and Davis’s Straits ; 
and in latitude 76° was so numerous in the channels of water 
separating fields of ice, that many hundreds were killed daily, 
and the ship’s company supplied with them. The whole of the 
birds in the breeding season (the sexes being alike) had the under 
part of the neck an uniform sooty black, terminating abruptly 
and in an even line against the white of the belly; the young 
birds, which we saw in all stages from the egg, as soon as they 
were feathered were marked exactly as the mature birds: but in 
the third week of September, when we were on our passage down 
the American coast, every specimen, whether old or young, was. 
observed to be in change ; and in the course of a few days the en- 
tire feathers of the throat and cheeks and of the under part of the 
neck had become white; this latter state has been erroneously 
considered by some authors as that of the immature bird. It has 
been correctly described however by. Fabricius as the winter 
plumage. Montagu arrived at the same conclusion in his Sup- 
plement. We saw neither of the varieties which Fabricius remarks. 
that he had heard of; namely, a red-breasted variety, and one: 
wholly white.. : 
14. Urra 
