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URIA LACRYMANS. THE BRIDLED GUILLEMOT. 



RINGED OR RING-EYKD GUILLEMOT. 



Guillemot bride. Uria lacrymans. Teram. Man. d'Ornith. IV. 574. 

 Ringed, or Bridled Guillemot. Yarr. Brit. Birds, II. 351. 



Bill rather slefider, scarcely/ decurved toicard the end, 

 black, the angle of the lower mandible prominent, and its sides 

 convex ; plumage blackish-grey above ; sides of the head and 

 fore part of upjicr neck tinged with brown ; a line encircling 

 the eye and extending backwards from it, white ; lower parts 

 and tips of secondaries xchite ; sides streaked with blackish- 

 grey ; tail of twelve feathers ; interdigital membranes full. 

 In summer the whole head and throat broicn. In icinter the 

 sides of the head behind the eyes and the throat white. 



If the Common Guillemot assumes a "white ring around 

 the eyes, and a line of the same colour directed backwards 

 and do^^nwards from them, it is not knoAvn under what cir- 

 cumstances it does so ; and if individuals so marked belonj; 



