Class II. 



LITTLE AUK 



517 



Rotges Martin's Spitzberg. 85. 



Little black and white Diver. 

 Wil. orn. 343. 



Mergulus Melanoleucos rof- 

 tro acato brcvi. Rail fyn. 

 civ. 125. 



Ed-iv. a-v. 91. 



Uria minor, le petit Guille- 

 mot. BriJJon aw. VI. 73. 



Alca alle. Lin. fyjl. 211. 



Faun, Succ. fp. 142. 



IJIandis Halkioen, Havdirdell. 

 Norvegis Soe Konge, Soe- 

 ren Jakob, Perdrikker, Per- 

 fuper, Boefiser, Borrefiasr, 

 Hys Thomas. Feroenfibus 

 Fulkop. Groenlandis Akpa- 

 liarfok. Brunnicb, 1 06. 



Gunner tab. 6. 



Br, Zool. 137. 



233. Little. 



<npHE bird our defefiption was made from was 

 ■*■ taken in Lancafbire ; its bulk was not fupe- 

 rior to that of a blackbird. The bill convex, 

 fliort, thick, and ftrong; its color black. That 

 of the crown of the head, the hind part of the neck, 

 the back, and the tail black ; the wings the fame 

 color ; but the tips of the lefTer quil-feathers white : 

 the inner coverts of the wings grey: the cheeks, 

 throat, and whole under fide of the body white : 

 the fcapular feathers black and white : the legs and 

 feet covered with dirty greenifh white fcales ; the 

 webs black. 



Mr. Edwards has figured a bird that varies very 

 little from this : and has added another, which he 

 imagines differs only in fex : in that, the head and 

 neck are wholly black ; and the inner coverts of the 



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Descrip. 



wings 



