520 LESSER GUILLEMOT. Class IL 



the tips of the leifer quil-feathers white : the 

 whole under part of the body is of a pure white : 

 the fides under the wings marked with dufky lines. 

 Immediately above the thighs are fome long fea- 

 thers that curl over them. The legs duiky. 



Thefe birds are found in amazing numbers on 

 the high cliffs on feveral of our coafts, and ap- 

 pear at the fame time as the auk. They are very 

 fimple birds > for notwithfbanding they are fhot at, 

 ' and fee their companions killed by them, they 

 will not quit the rock. Like the auk, they lay on- 

 E q o. ly one egg, which is very large ; fome are of 3 

 fine pale blue, others white, fpotted, or moll: ele- 

 gantly ftreaked with lines crofling each other in 

 ail directions. The Rev. Mr. Low of Birfa af- 

 fures me, that they continue about the Orknies the 

 whole winter. 



235. Lesser. Uria Svarbag. Ringuia. Brunnich, No. no. 



Ifiandis Stutnefur, Svartbakur. Scopoli, No. 103. 

 Br. Zool. 138. 



Descrip. rip HE weight is nineteen ounces: the length fix- 

 -*• teen inches : the breadth twenty-fix. The 

 bill two inches and a half long, fhaped like the 

 Guillemot's, but weaker. The top of the head, 

 the whole upper part of the body, wings and tail 

 are of a darker color than the former : the cheeks, 



throat, 



