FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. 



bled brown and yellowish : claws black : the margins 

 of the upper mandible of the beak yellow. 



This interesting species was procured during Cap- 

 tain Ross's expedition towards the discovery of the 

 north-west passage : it is very abundant in Davis's 

 Straits, Baffin's Bay, the coasts of Greenland and of 

 Spitzbergen : it has been confounded with the fol- 

 lowing species. Brunninck was the first who de- 

 scribed it, under the name of Uria Troile, giving to 

 that bird the appellation of U. lomvia ; it has con- 

 sequently been necessary to apply a new name to 

 the present species. I have therefore adopted that 

 given by my friend Dr. Leach, as his name was first 

 published at a meeting of the Linnean Society, and 

 entered upon the minutes of that body. 



FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. 



(Uria Troile.) 



UR. corpore Jusco, pectore abdomineque niveo, remigibus secun- 

 dariis apice albis, rostro longitudine capitis ; mandibuld su- 

 periore quadruple longiore quam lata. 



Guillemot with the body brown, the breast and abdomen snow- 

 white, the secondary quills white at the tip, the beak the length 

 of the head, and the upper mandible four times longer than 

 broad. 



Uria Troile. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 796. 



Colymbus Troile. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1 . 220. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 

 1.585. 



Uria. Briss. Orn. 6. 70. pi. 6.f. 1. 



