156 BLACK GUILLEMOT. 
a tinge of green, spotted, blotted, and speckled more or less 
with grey, reddish brown, and very dark brown or blackish. 
Mr. Hewitson has known one of a pink colour. 
Both parents attend to the young until able to fly and 
live, when they forage for themselves. 
Male; weight, about fourteen ounces; length, one foot one 
and a half to one foot two inches. Bill, black; the mouth 
inside, orange or yellow red; iris, brown. Head on the 
crown, neck, nape, chin, throat, breast, and back, brownish 
black, the lower part with a gloss of green. There is an 
oval patch of white in front of the shoulder of the wing. 
In winter, the head on the sides, neck on the back, and 
nape, have the feathers bordered with white; the chin, throat, 
and breast, white, intermixed with black. The back, too, 
has the feathers tipped with white; the lower part white. 
The wings reach in extent to one foot ten inches: greater 
wing coverts, white; lesser wing coverts, partly white, and 
partly black; the primaries, which are black, are, except the 
first, tipped with greyish white, the edge of the outer webs 
of that colour for a third of their length; secondaries, partly 
tipped with. white, the outer web of these also being marked 
in like manner as the others just described. In winter the 
white is spotted with brownish black.  Tertiaries, greater 
and lesser under wing coverts, tail, and upper and under 
tail coverts, brownish black; legs and toes, vermilion, or coral 
red, with a tinge of orange, the deepest colour in the 
summer. 
The young are at first covered with dull greyish black 
brown. They next are mottled with black and white feathers. 
Sir William Jardine mentions one shot by him in the 
month of January, which had the head and upper part of 
the neck clouded with brownish black, the whole of the 
chin, throat, and breast, white, except the sides of the last- 
named, which were clouded with brownish black. The back 
on the upper part, deep brownish black, on the lower part 
nearly white. The white in front of, and on the wings, 
clouded with brownish black. 
