160 FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. Class II. 



C.ENUS XVIIT. GUILLEMOT. 



Bi LI- slender, strong, pointed; the upper man- 

 dible slightly hcMuling towards the end ; 

 the base covered Avith soft short feathers. 



'Nostrils lodged in a hollow near the base. 



Tongue slender, almost the length of the bill. 



Toes : no back toe. 



1. Foolish. Ihia Truilo. IJ. coipore nigro Jfisf. d'ois. ix. 350. PI. 



pecloie abdomineque iiiveo, Etif. ()03. 



'' remigibus sccundariis apice Lominia. A'^. C*w. Pflr. iv. 



albis. Lat/i. Iiid. orii. 7f)(i. 414. 



id, Syn. vi. 3'Jy. id. Sup. i. Colymbus Troile. Gm. Lin. 



265. 585. ''^'*^ <*'' ''' 



Guillein, Gnillemot, Skout, Faun. Suec. sp. \4(j. ' 



Kidilaw, Sea-hen. Jf'tl. oru. JsUindis ^ J\'ori'fgis Lomvie, 



324. Langivie, Lomrifvie, Stoi- 



JRaii Si/)i. ai\ I'JO. fugl. Brunmch, 108. 



' The Lavy. Mur/in's voy. St. Sca-Taube, or Groenlandis- 



1 Kilda, 32. n/u* <* cher Taucher. Friscfi, ii. 



Edw. av. 35g.Jig. 1. 185. 



Uria, le Guilleinot. Brisson Jh: ZooL 138. II. 3. Arct. 



av. vi. 70. Tnl'. (')■ fg. 1. Zoo'l i'l. 220 . 



Descrii"- I HIS species weighs twenty-four ounces ; the 

 length is seventeen inches ; the brcatlth twenty- 

 seven and a half The bill is three inches long, 

 black, strait, and sharp pointeil ; near the end 

 of the loM er mandible is a small process ; the in- 



TION. 



