GUILLEMOT. 3.35 



far under ground : lays a grey egg ; or, according to others, two*, 

 of a whitifh colour, as big as thofe of a Hen, marked with many 

 grey and black fpots. Seen alfo on the rocks of Llandidno, in 

 Caernarvon/hire f, and in the Farn IJles, off the coaft of Northum- 

 berland. Moftly fly in pairs. Dive well, hence by fome called 

 Diving Pigeons %. 



Met with on all the Greenland fhores in numbers, and feeds on 

 finally. It lays the beginning of June-, the eggs are eaten by 

 the inhabitants. The fkin of the body put to the fame ufes as 

 that of the Auks -, and that of the legs ufed as a bait to their 

 fifhing-lines. Found alfo at Spitzbergen^. At Kamtfchatka builds 

 the neft on high rocks in the fea, and whittles very loud ; hence 

 by the Coffees is called Jvojhik, or Pojl-boy ||. In this laft place a 

 variety is alfo found, with a white line ifTuing from the white fpot 

 on the wings %. Common at Hudfon's Bay at all feafons, in the 

 extremes of the bay, and very numerous : called there by the 

 name of Sejekefewuck. 



Cepphus la&eolus, Pall. Spic. v. p. 33. 4. 



WHITE G. 

 g I Z E of the Black Guillemot. Bill brownifh flelh-colour : in- Description. 

 fide of the mouth white : irides brown : eye-lids brownifh 



* See Faun. Groenl.-— According to Steller, the eggs are whitifli, fpotted with 

 ruft, and fpeckled with a(h-colour. — Br. Zool. 



t Id. % Ara. Zool. § Pbipps Foy.p. 186. 



|| The iill, as well as the legs, is there faid to be red ; but I cannot find any 

 one who has feen the bill of that colour. Indeed Lim*us fays, " Roftrum, ft- 

 " pedes, & faux fanguinea;" but I fear he did not aver it from his own ob- 

 fervations. fl Ara. Zool. 



flefh- 



