GUILLEMOT. 333 



mouth red : the general colour of the plumage is black, except a 

 large portion of white on the wing coverts ; and the fecond quills 

 tipped with white : the legs are fcarlet : claws black. This is 

 the fummer drefs. 



The male and female are faid not to differ when of adult age : 

 they certainly change colour in the winter * : fometimes indivi- 

 duals are met with wholly black f. 



LARGER than the laft: length eighteen inches. Bill an inch „ 3« 



V AR. A. 



and a half long, and black: the general colour of the plu- ^ 



<=>' & r Description. 



mage footy black, palelt beneath : feveral of the middle wing 

 coverts tipped with white, forming a broad oblong fpot acrofs 

 the wing : the fecondaries are alio marked with white, meeting 

 the firft in an acute angle : legs red. 



Inhabits Aoonalajhka. In the collection of Sir Jofeph Banks. Place.' 



Le petit Guillemot raye, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 78. 4. 3. 



Uria Balthica, Brun. N° 1 16 J. Var. B. 



Spotted Greenland Dove, Ed-w. pi. 50. 



I N this the upper parts are of a brownifh black, tranfverfely Description. 



ftriped with a darker colour : the fides of the head, and under 

 parts, from chin to vent, dufky white, tranfverfely barred with 

 pale afh-colour : wing coverts white, part of them mixed with 

 black : legs dirty flefh-colour. 



This came from Greenland. Place. 



• Faun. Groenl. f Mr. Hutchins. 



\ Both this and the following are fuppofed to be old birds in the ivin/er drefs. 

 Faun. Groenl, — Some become wholly white in winter. Arft. Zool. 



Uria 



