GENUS 90. URIA. GUILLEMOT. 



SPECIES. URM rfLLE. 



LITTLE GUILLEMOT.* 



[Plate LXXIV. Fig. 5.] 



Uria alle, TEMM. Man. d'Orn.p. 928. Jllca alle, LINN. Sijst. ed. 

 12, torn, i, p. 211, 5. GMEL. Syst. i, p. 554, 5. Ind. Orn. p. 

 795, 10. Uria minor, BRISS. vi, /;. 73, 2. Le /W/' Guillemot 

 femelle, PL Enl. 917. Small black and white Diver, EDWARDS, 

 pi. 91. Little Auk, LATH. Gen. Syn., in, p. 327. PENN. ^rcf. 

 Zoo/. No. 429. BEWICK, n, p. 158. PEACE'S Museum, JVw. 

 2978. 



OF the history of this little stranger, but few particulars are 

 known. With us it is a very rare bird; and, when seen, it is 

 generally in the vicinity of the sea. The specimen from which 

 the figure in the plate was taken, was killed at Great Egg-Har- 

 bour, in the month of December, 1811, and was sent to Wilson 

 as a great curiosity. It measured nine inches in length, and 

 fourteen in extent; the bill, upper part of the head, back, wings 

 and tail, were black; the upper part of the breast and hind-head, 

 were gray, or white mixed with ash; the sides of the neck, 

 whole lower parts, and tips of secondaries, were pure white; 

 feet and legs black, shins pale flesh colour; above each eye there 

 was a small spot of white ;t the lower scapulars streaked slightly 

 with the same. 



The little Guillemot is said to be but a rare visitant of the 

 British isles. It is metf with in various parts of the north, even 

 as far as Spitzbergen; is common in Greenland, in company with 



* Named in the plate Little Auk- 



f In Peale's Museum there is an excellent specimen of this species, which 

 has likewise a smaller spot below each eye. 



