FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. 24-5 



Lomvia Hoieri. Rail, Syv. i 20. A. 



Uria lonivia. Brun. Orn. Boreal . no. 108. 



Le Guillemot. Buff. Hist. Xat. Ois. 9. 350. pL 25. Buff. PI. 



Enl. 903. 



Grand Guillemot. Cur. Reg. Anim. 1. 509. 

 Guillemot a capuchon. Temm. man. d'Orn. 606. 

 Foolish Guillemot. Albin. Brit. Birds, 1 . pi. 84. Edit:. Glean- 



pi. 359./ 1. Pe7J. 5r//. Zoo/. 2. 234. Penn. Arct. Zoo/. 2. 



436. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 329. Lath. Syn. Sup. 265. Z,erw. 



Brit. Birds, 6. />/. 220. Wale. Syn. 1. X- 9 6 - Don - Brit. 



Birds, 2. pi. 28. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. onrf SM/. fieri-. fir//. 

 o, 2. pi. 1 75. ^4// 



THIS species is in length seventeen inches : beak 

 black, three inches long, straight, sharp-pointed : 

 inside of the mouth yellow : irides dusky : the base 

 of the beak is covered with soft feathers, which, with 

 the head, neck, back, wings, and tail, are of a deep 

 mouse-coloured brown : the tips of the lesser quill- 

 feathers white : the whole under side of the body 

 pure white : on the sides under the wings a few 

 dusky lines : from the eye to the hind head is a 

 singular line occasioned by a division of the feathers: 

 legs dusky. 



Guillemots inhabit various parts of the northern 

 hemisphere, visiting the more temperate regions on 

 the approach of winter, and remaining on the coasts 

 of Britain and Norway until they have reared their 

 young. The female lays only one egg, of a greenish- 

 yellow colour, blotched and marbled with dusky, and 

 so variable that scarcely two are found alike : during 

 the period of incubation she is regularly fed with 

 sprats and other small fish by the male. These birds 

 are found in the utmost profusion on some of our 



