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COMMON SEA-DOVE. 



(Mergulus melanoleucos.) 



Mb. corpore atro subtus remigumque posticarum apieibus albis. 

 Sea-dove with a dark-coloured body, with the under parts and tips 



of the posterior quills white. 

 Alca Alle. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 211. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.554. 



Lath. Ltd. Orn. 2. 795. Linn. Trans, xii. p. 537. 

 Uria minor. Briss. Orn. 6. 73. 

 Uria Alle. Sabine, Parry's Voyage, /lpp. p. ccx. 

 Small Black and White Diver. Ediv. Glean. pL 91. 

 Greenland Dove. Albin's Birds, I. pi. 85. 

 Guillemot nain. Temrn. man. d'Om. 61 1. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 929. 

 Mergulus melanoleucos rostro acuto brevi. Ray, 125. A. 

 Young. — Alca Alle. Brun. Orn. Boreal, no, 106. 

 Le petit Guillemot. Buff. PI. Enl 917. 

 Little Auk. Penn, Brit. Zool. 2. 233. pi. 82. Penn. Arct. Zool. 



2. pi. 429. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 327- Lew. Brit. Birds, 6. 223 • 



Wale. Syn. I. pi. 88. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. and Supp. Bciv. 



Brit. Birds, 2. 172. Wits'. Amer. Orn. ix. 94.pl. lxxiv.y. 5. 



Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 70. 

 Variety. — Alca Candida. Brun. Orn. Boreal, no. 107. 



Length about nine inches : the beak black : irides 

 dusky-brown : the top of the head, the cheeks, the 

 throat, the upper part of the neck, the nape, and the 

 rest of the upper parts of the plumage deep black : 

 the quills are dusky-brown, and the secondaries tipped 

 ■with white : the lower part of the front of the neck, 

 the breast, and the rest of the under parts of the 

 body are pure white : the tarsi and toes are reddish- 

 brown, and the webs dusky. The young have the 

 top of the head, the space round the eyes, the nape, 



