LITTLE AUK, or SEA DOVE. 



(Uria alle, Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 928. Bonap. Synops. No. 375. 

 Rich, and Swains, North. Zool. ii. p. 479. Little Auk, {Alca 

 alle,) Wilson, ix. p. 94. pi. 74. fig. 5. Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 

 429. J[. alle, Linn. Faun. Suec. No. 142. Brunnich, No. 106. 

 Small Black and White Diver, Edwards, Glean, pi. 91. Buff. 

 PI. Enlum. 917. [winter dress]. Penn. Brit. Zool. p. 137. t. H. 4. 

 fig. 1. Mergulus alle, YiBii.1.. Gal. des Ois. 295. [adult]. Green- 

 land Dove, Albin, i. t. 85. Rot-ges, or Rottet, Marten's Spitzb. p. 

 85. Uria minor, Bmss. vi. p. 73,2. Phil. Museum, No. 2978.) 



Sp. Charact. — Black ; beneath and tips of the secondaries white ; 

 under the wings black ; bill and feet black ; bill very short, half 

 as long as the head, a little curved. — Summer plumage, with the 

 whole head black. 



This neat and singular little bird, with a quaint resem- 

 blance to the Columbine tribe, is known to mariners by the 

 name of the Greenland Dove ; and in this vicinity it is also 

 called the Pigeon Diver. It inhabits, however, a region 

 where the gentle cooing of the Dove is never heard. It 

 dwells far within the Arctic circle, approaching the very 



