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In an apparently young bird the upper plumage 

 is rather darker, the throat and fore part of the neck 

 are white, that colour extending above the auricu- 

 lars; but on the sides where it joins the dark 

 colours and in front of the neck, the feathers are 

 tipped with greyish black, showing a slightly mot- 

 led appearance. 



THE BLACK GUILLEMOT. 

 Uria grylk. 



PLATE XIV. 



Colymbus grylle, Liiw. Guillemot a miroir blanc, Temm. 

 Greenland Dove, or Black Guillemot of British authors.' 

 Spotted Guillemot (the young). 



THIS species, differing in colour and marking from 

 all the others, is a more northern bird ; the coasts of 

 the south of Scotland being near to its southern 

 range in Britain. Mr. Yarrell, however, mentions 

 having seen it on the Hampshire coast, and his 

 knowledge of its occurrence off Dorsetshire, De- 

 vonshire, and Cornwall. Northward, we have seen 

 it ourselves around the precipitous parts of the 

 Isle of Man, where, we have no doubt, that it 

 was at the time breeding; and on the eastern 



