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MEKGULUS ALLE. 



(LITTLE AUK.) 



Vria minor, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 73 (1760). 



Alca alle, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 211 (1766). 



Petit Guillemot, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ix. p. 354- (1783). 



Alca alee (misprint for alle), Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 554 (1788). 



Vria alle (L.), Pall. Zoogr. Eosso-As. ii. p. 369 (1811). 



Mergulus, Vieill. (Alca alle, Linn.) Analyse, p. 67 (1816). 



Mergulus melanoleucos, Leach, Syst. Cat. M. & B. Brit, Mus. p. 42 (1816). 



Mergulus alle (L.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xx. p. 209 (1818). 



Cephus, Less. (Alca alle, Linn.) Traite d'Orn. p. 639 (1831). 



Mergulus arcticus, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 994 (1831). 



Arctica alle (L.), G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of B. p. 98 (1841). 



Little Auk, Eotche, DoveMe, English ; Guillemot nain, French ; Krabbentaucher, German ; 

 Heine Alk, Dutch ; Lille-Erabbedykker, Danish ; FulJcobi, Fseroese ; Akpalliarsuk, Kcerrak, 

 Greenlandic ; Haftirdill Halkion, Icelandic ; Alkekonge, Norwegian; Alkekung, Swedish; 

 Jadkyyhkynen, Finnish. 



Figures notabiles. 



Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. pi. 91; D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 917; Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, 

 pi. 71 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 52 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 334 ; Sundevall, Svensk. 

 Fogl. pi. 52. fig. 3 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 402 ; id. B. of G. Brit. v. pi. 50 ; Schlegel, Vog. 

 Nederl. pi. 262 ; Audub. Orn. Biog. pi. 339 ; Wilson, Am. Orn. pi. 74. 



Ad. ptil. ast. capite et collo saturate fumoso-nigris fasco tinctis : corpore supra nitide nigro, caeruleo purpureo 

 nitente, scapularibus albo marginatis : alis et cauda nigris, secundariis albo terruinatis : corpore subtiis 

 albo, hypochondriis nigro striatis : rostro nigro-plumbeo : iridefusca: pedibus lividis. 



Ad. ptil. Mem. gula, gutture et colli lateribus albis nee nigris, nucha vix albo notata. : corpore reliquo supra et 



subtiis sicut in ptilosi aestivali pieturato. 



Adult in summer (Greenland). Entire head and neck deep sooty black with a brownish tinge; upper parts 

 of the body and wing-coverts blaek with a purpbsh blue gloss, the scapulars margined with white ; 

 wings and tail black, the short secondaries broadly tipped with white; underparts white; flanks striped 

 with black ; bill leaden-black ; legs dark livid flesh-colour ; iris dark brown. Total length about 

 8 inches, gape 0'9, wing 4 , 8, tail 1*4, tarsus - 82. 



Adult in winter (Bay of Eundy). Differs from the adult in summer dress in having the entire throat white, 

 the sides of the neck being also white, and the nape slightly marked with tbis colour. 



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