NATURAL HISTORY. xlv 



Di. Richardson has aheady described its plumage, during that season of the year, 

 with minute accuracy, from some specimens that were shot by me near Igloolik, 

 in March, 1823. One individual only was obtained by us during the winter, althouah 

 several others were seen off Fury Point, in February, 1833. 



It was subsequently met with in great numbers as we travelled along the hiuh 

 precipitous land between Fury Point and Batty Bay, where they collected in vast 

 quantities during the breeding season, affording to our party many delicious meals, and 

 proving a valuable addition to our then scanty stock of provision. Several thousands 

 were shot by our sportsmen, and by means of this providential supply of fresh food, 

 several of the men, that had been long afflicted with that most dreadful malndv, 

 the sea scurvy, were restored to health. 



It is not equal in flavour to the preceding species, but is much more numerous and 

 more extensively dispersed along the coasts of the Arctic Seas. 



41.— URIA ALLE (Littk Guillemot). 



URIA ALLE.— RiVA .- Fuun. Bar. Amer.— vol ii., p. 470. Ti:mm.—\o\. ii., p. 928. 



Sah : Supp. to Parry's 1st Voyage — p. ccx. Hoss, App. to Parry's 3d Voyage — 

 p. 107 ; and Parry's Polar Voyage — p. 197. 

 ALCA ALLE. — Sab: Trans. Linn. Soc. — vol. xii., p. 554. Fab: Faun. Grant. — p. 84. 

 LITTLE AIJK.—Penn .- Arct. Zoo/.— vol. ii., p. 512. Lat/i : Syn.—vo\. v., p. 327. 



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Collect during the breeding season in vast numbers along the north and east 

 coast of Baffin's Bay, but are seldom to be met with far to the westward of Lancaster 

 Sound. A few were seen by us near Leopold Island, and two or three specimens were 

 obtained. 



