IW 



LITTLE AUK. 



Class IL 



4. Little. Alca alle. A. rostro laevi conico, 



abdomine toto subtus remi- 

 . gumque posticarum apicibus 



albis, pedibus nigris. Lath. 



Ind. orn. 795. id. Syn. v. 



327- 

 Rotges Martin's Spitzberg. 85. 

 Little black and white Diver. 



Wil. orn. 343. 

 Mergulus Melanoleucos rostro 



acuto brevi. Rati Syn. av. 



125. 

 JSdw. av. 91. 

 Uria minor, le petit Guille- 



Descrip- 



TION. 



mot. Brisson av. vi. 73. 

 Hist. dois. ix. 354. 



Alca alle. Gm. Lin. 554. 



Faun. Suec. sp, 142. 



Islandis Halkioen, Havdirdell. 

 Norvegis Soe Konge, Soeren 

 Jakob, Perdrikker, Persu- 

 per, Boefiaer, Borrefiser, 

 Hys Thomas. Feroensibus 

 Fulkop. Groenlandis Akpa- 

 liarsok. Brunnich, 106. 



Gunner tab. 6. 



Br. Zool. 137. Arct. Zool. ii. 

 224. 



X HE bird our description was made from was 

 taken in Lancashire ; its bulk was not superior to 

 that of a blackbird. The bill was convex, short, 

 thick, and strong; its color black; the crown of 

 the head, the hind part of the neck, the back, 

 and the tail black; the v>7ings the same color; 

 but the tips of the lesser quil feathers white; 

 the inner coverts of the wings grey ; the cheeks, 

 throat, and whole under side of the body white; 

 the scapular feathers black and white; the legs 

 and feet covered with dirty greenish white scales ; 

 the webs black. 



Mr. Edwards has figured a bird that varies 

 very little from this; and has added another, 

 which he imagines differs only in sex j in that, 



