50 BLACK GUILLEMOT. 



LATHAM, who has given a figure of this species, 

 says it is " larger than the Little Auk (Mergulus 

 melanoleucos), and is ten inches in length : the beak 

 is compressed a little on the sides, rather slender, 

 and one inch in length : crown of the head dusky : 

 upper part of the body transversely barred with tawny, 

 chesnut, and blackish-brown, as far as the tail, which 

 is short and black : the wing-coverts dusky, some of 

 the larger edged with white : quills black : the chin 

 and throat are dusky, mixed with irregular blotches 

 of white : sides of the neck plain dusky: breast, belly, 

 and vent irregularly barred and undulated with dusky 

 and white, changing to the last at the vent : legs and 

 toes of a pale orange : webs and claws black. Male 

 and female much alike. 5 ' 



Inhabits various parts of the north-western coast 

 of America and the north-eastern portion of Asia : 

 common in the islands of Beering's Straits. 



BLACK GUILLEMOT. 

 (Uria scapularis.) 



UR. cor pore atro, tectridbus alarum albis. 



Guillemot with the body dark-coloured, and the wing-coverts 



\vhite. 

 Colymbus Grylle. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1.220. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1.584. 



Uria Grylle. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 797. 



Uria minor nigra, vel Columba Groenlaudica. Briss. Orn. 6. 76. 

 Le petit Guillemot noir. Buff. Ois. 9. 354. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 5 10. 

 Guillemot a miroir blanc. Temm. man. d"0rn, fi08. 



