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MERGULUS ALLE. THE LITTLE ROTCHE 



LITTLE AUK. LITTLE GUILLK.MOT. SEA-DOVE. 



Fig. 82. 



Alca Alle. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 211. 



Alca Alle. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 79o. 



Little Auk. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Guillemot nain. Uria Alle. Tcmm. Man. d' Ornith. II. 928. 



Common Eotche. Mergulus melanoleucos. Selby, lUust. II. 430. 



Mergulus AUe. Common Rotche. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 259. 



Mergulus Alle. Bonap. Comp. List, 65. 



Adult in winter with the upper part of the head, a portion 

 of the cheeks, the hind part and sides of the neck, and all the 

 upper parts of the body, black; the tips of the secondary 

 quills, and the margins of some of the scaptdars, white ; as 

 are the throat, fore-neck, breast, and abdomen ; the uppermost 

 feathers of the sides with their inner webs, black ; the loiver 

 wing-coverts greyish-brown. In summer the colours similar ; 

 but the throat and fore-neck brownish-black, like the head. 



Male in Winter. — ThivS little bird, though neither 

 elegant in form nor remarkable for beauty of colouring, 

 merits at least the epithet pretty. Were it not necessary, in 



