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URIA GRYLLE. THE BLACK GUILLEMOT. 



GREENLAND DOVE. DOVEKY. SEA TURTLE. LITTLE GUILLEMOT. SPOTTED 

 GUILLEMOT. PUFFINET. TYSTIE, or TYSTEY. GEARA-BREAC. 



Colymbus Grylle. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 200. 



Uria Grylle. Lath. Ind. Omith. IL 797. 



Black Guillemot. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Guillemot a miroir blanc. Uria Grylle. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. IL 925. 



Black Guillemot. Uria Grylle. Selby, Illustr. II. 426. 



Uria Grylle. Black Guillemot. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 258. 



Uria Grylle. Bonap. Comp. List, G5. 



Adult in winter with the bill black, the feet orange-red ; 

 ike prevailing colour of the plumage ivhite ; the cheeks, neck 

 all round, lower parts, and rump being of that hue ; the upper 

 part of the head mottled ivith greyish-black ; the feathers of 

 the hack and the scapidars black, tipped with greyish-white ; 

 the wings and tail broicnish-black, the former with a large 

 white patch. Adult in summer tvith the bill black, the feet 

 coral-red; the plumage entirely black, excepting a patch on 

 the wing, the lower wing-coverts, and axillars, which are 

 white. Young with the bill dusky, the feet brown ; the plu- 

 mage as in the adult in winter, but more mottled ivith 

 blackish- grey. 



The Black Guillemot, which is much inferior in size to 

 either of the two species already described, differs from them 

 in having the body proportionally shorter and fuller, and is 

 easily known by its red feet and the white patch on its 

 wings. Its winter plumage is very differently coloured from 

 that of summer, as wiF be seen from the following 

 descriptions : — 



Male in Winter. — Ihe body is elliptical, full, de- 

 pressed ; the neck rather short ; the head oblong, narrowed 



