BLACK GUILLEMOT. 251 



Greenland Dove, or Sea Turtle. Alb. Birds, 2. pi. 80. 



Black Guillemot, or Scraber. Penn. Brit. Zool 2. 236. Penn. 



Arct. Zool. 2. 437. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 332. Lath. Syn. 



Sup. ii. 265. Lewin. Brit. Birds, 6. pi 221. Wale. Syn. 1. 



pi. 95. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1 . and Sup. Bew. Brit. Birds, 2. \ 79. 

 Grylle scapularis. Leach in Brit. Altis. Collection. 

 YOUXG. Uria minor striata. Briss. Orn. 6. 78. 

 Uria Balthica. Brun. Orn. Boreal, no. 115, 116. 

 Uria grylloitles. Brun. Orn. Boreal, no. 114. 

 Spotted Greenland Dove. Edw. Glean, pi. 50. 

 Spotted Guillemot. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. pi. 83. Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 6. 334. Mont. Orn. Diet. \. Ben: Brit. Birds, 2. 181. 

 VARIETY. Cephus lacteolus. Pall. Spicil. 5. 33. 

 Colymbus lacteolus. Gniel. Syst. Nat. 1. 583. 

 Uria lacteola. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 798. 

 White Guillemot. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 335. 



ABOUT fourteen inches in length : the beak is 

 black : the inside of the mouth bright red : the top of 

 the head, the nape, all the upper parts of the plumage, 

 with the exception of the middle of the wings, are 

 very deep black : the greater and middle wing-coverts 

 are white : the cheeks and all the under parts, from 

 the beak to the tail, are pure white : the legs and 

 feet are bright red : the irides brown. The above 

 is the winter plumage : the following is that of the 

 summer : the male has the beak black, its inside and 

 legs bright red ; and all the plumage deep black, 

 with the exception of the greater and middle wing- 

 coverts, which are pure white. The female is rather 

 less than the male : the plumage is of a lighter black, 

 and the white on the wing-coverts is more dingy than 

 in the male, and less extended : during the period of 

 moulting both sexes are varied more or less on the 

 under parts with white feathers. The young of the 



