BRITISH BIRDS. l6l 



primary quills are dusky, the lower part of their 

 inner sides white: secondaries tipped Avith white: 

 tail dusky, edged with ash : legs black. The scal- 

 loped membranes on its toes (in our specimen) Avere 

 finely serrated on their edges. 



The specimen from AA'hich this draAA T ing and 

 description Avere taken, Avas shot near the city of 

 Chester, by Lieutenant-Colonel Dalton, of the 4th 

 regiment of Dragoons, on the i_|.th of October, 1800, 

 and had not quite completed its AAdnter plumage. 



Captain Sabine mentions in his " Memoir of the 

 Birds of Greenland," that on the loth of June, in 

 latitude 08, four miles from land, a flock of these 

 birds Avas seen sAvimming in the open sea amongst 

 some ice-bergs. 



