156 BLACK GUILLEMOT. 



a tinge of green, spotted, blotted, and speckled more or less 

 with grey, reddish brown, and very dark brown or blackish. 

 Mr. Hewitson has known one of a pink colour. 



Both parents attend to the young until able to fly and 

 dive, when they forage for themselves. 



Male; weight, about fourteen ounces; length, one foot one 

 and a half to one foot two inches. Bill, black; the mouth 

 inside, orange or yellow red; iris, brown. Head on the 

 crown, neck, nape, chin, throat, breast, and back, brownish 

 black, the lower part with a gloss of green. There is an 

 oval patch of white in front of the shoulder of the wing. 

 In winter, the head on the sides, neck on the back, and 

 nape, have the feathers bordered with white; the chin, throat, 

 and breast, white, intermixed with black. The back, too, 

 has the feathers tipped with white; the lower part white. 



The wings reach in extent to one foot ten inches: greater 

 wing coverts, white; lesser wing coverts, partly white, and 

 partly black; the primaries, which are black, are, except the 

 first, tipped with greyish white, the edge of the outer webs 

 of that colour for a third of their length; secondaries, partly 

 tipped with white, the outer web of these also being marked 

 in like manner as -the others just described. In winter the 

 white is spotted with brownish black. Tertiaries, greater 

 and lesser under wing coverts, tail, and upper and under 

 tail coverts, brownish black; legs and toes, vermilion, or coral 

 red, with a tinge of orange, the deepest colour in the 

 summer. 



The young are at first covered with dull greyish black 

 brown. They next are mottled with black and white feathers. 



Sir William Jardine mentions one shot by him in the 

 month of January, which had the head and upper part of 

 the neck clouded with brownish black, the whole of the 

 chin, throat, and breast, white, except the sides of the last- 

 named, which were clouded with brownish black. The back 

 on the upper part, deep brownish black, on the lower part 

 nearly white. The white in front of, and on the wings, 

 clouded with brownish black. 



