5i6 FOOLISH AND BLACK GUILLEMOT. 



L. GUILLEMOT. Gen. Birds, LXXXIV . 



436. Foolish. ^r. Zool. ii. N" 234- — Colymbus Troille, Faun, Suec. N° 149. — Latham, iii. 



— Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



With the bill three inches long: head, neck, back, wings, and 

 tail, of a deep moufe-color : fecondaries tipt with white : 

 breafl: and belly pure white : legs duflcy. Weight twenty ounces. 

 Length feventeen inches. Extent twenty-feven and a half. 

 Place. Inhabits all parts of the north of Europe, to Spitzbergen ; the coafl 



of Lapmark, and along the white and icy fea, quite to Kamtfchatka 

 and North America. Found in Newfoundland. Not mentioned among 

 the birds of Greenland. Is a fpecies that winters on the coaft of 

 Italy * ; poffibly thofe which quit England before that feafon. 



437. Black. ^''- ^'"''* "• ^^ ^3^ — Colymbus Grylle, Faunt-Suec. N" l^^.-^Latham, iii. 



—Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus. 



/^ With the bill an inch and a half long : infide of the mouth. 

 * of a fine red : bill, head, neck, back, tail, and under fide 

 of the body, black: wings duflcy; the coverts marked with a bed of 

 ■white; fecondaries tipt with white : legs fcarlet. Length fourteen 

 inches. Extent twenty-two. 

 Place. Found in all the fame places with the former, except Italy, doubt- 



ful as to Newfoundland. Inhabits Hudfon's Bay the whole year. The 

 young are mottled with black and white, and fometimes are quije 

 white t- Are excellent divers ; therefore called fometimes Diving 

 Pigeons. Make a twittering noife. The Greenlanders eat the flefh, 

 - ufe the fliin for cloathing, and the legs as lures for fifli. 



* MS. Lift, of Birds of Italy, fent to me by that eminent Ornithologlft, M. Scopoli, 

 from Paw a. 



t Mr. Huuhins affures me, that the old birds do not vary, as has been imagined. 



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