BLACK GUILLEMOT. Class II. 



large bed of white, which in young birds is fpot- 

 ted : the tips of the lefier quil- feathers, and the 

 inner coverts of the wings ar e white : except 

 thefe, the whole plumage is black. In winter it 

 is faid to change to white : and a variety fpot- 

 ted with black and white* is not uncommon in 

 Scotland. The tail con fills of twelve feathers : 

 the legs are red. 



Thefe birds are found on the Bafs ijle in Scot- 

 land; in the ijle of St Hilda \ and, as Mr. Ray ima- 

 gines, in the Farn (/lands off the coaft of Nor- 

 thumberland ; we have alio feen it on the rocks 

 of Llandidno in Caernarvon/hire. Except at breed- 

 ing time, it keeps always at fea -, and is very diffi- 

 cult to be mot, diving at the flam of the pan. 

 The Welch call this bird Cafgan Longwr, or the fai- 

 lor's hatred, from a notion that its appearance 

 forebodes a ftorm. It vifits St. Kilda's in March : 

 makes its neft far under ground ; and lays a grey 

 egg ; or, as Steller fays, whitifh fpotted with ruft, 

 and fpeckled with afh color. 



* The fpotted Greenland Dove of Mr. Edwards, plate 50* 



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