526 WEB-FOOTiED BIRDS. 



barred with tawney, chestnut, and blackish-brown, as far as the tail, 

 which is short and black The wing coverts dusky, some of the 

 larger edged with white. Quills black. Chin and throat dusky, 

 mixed with irregular blotches of white ; sides of the neck plain 

 dusky ; breast, belly, and vent, irregularly barred and waved with 

 dusky and white, changing to the last at the vent. Legs and toes 

 pale orange ; the webs and claws black. 



i t Both mandibles curved at the point. 



Beneath white at all times ; the throat only changing from black 

 to white in moulting. The young obtain the adult plumage in the 

 2d year. These lay but one egg. 



FOOLISH GUILLEMOT, or MURRE. 



(Uria troille, Lath. Gmel. Syst. sp. ii. Bonap. Synops. No. 373. 

 Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 921. Rich, and Swains. North. Zool. 

 ii. p. 477. Colyvibus troille^ Linn. Faun. Suec. No. 149. Foolish 

 Guillemot, Edwards, pi. 359. fig. 1. Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 

 229. [4to.] No. 436. Lesser Guillemot, Idem. ii. p. 231. A. Le 

 Guillemot, BvFF. Ois. ix. p. 350. Id. PI. Enlum. 903. [adult in 

 summer]. Penn. Brit. Zool. p. 138. t. H. Uria Suarbdg, and U. 

 ringuia, Brunnich, Orn. Boreal, p. 27. No. 110. and 111. [winter 

 plumage]. U. loinvia, Ibid. No. 108. Lath. Ind. ii. sp. 1. [adult 

 in summer].) 



Sp. Charact. — Blackish, beneath white; secondaries white at tip; 

 feet dusky ; bill longer than the head, much compressed through- 

 out, upper mandible four times as long as broad. — Adult, with a 

 black stripe behind the eyes. Summer plumage, with the whole 

 head jet black. The young duller, and without the black stripe 

 behind the eye. 



The Foolish Guillemot, so called for their fatuity in the 

 breeding season, in allowing themselves sometimes to be 

 seized by the hand, or killed on the spot without flying from 

 their favorite cliffs, is another singular and common inhab- 



