33 6 GUILLEMOT. 



flefli-colour : head and body white as fhow : back, wings, and 

 bafe of the tail, pale grey : the reft of its length white : fhape 

 fomewhat pointed : quills whitiih, down the fhafts inclining to 

 brown ; the outer one the longeft : all the fecondaries nearly of 

 equal length: legs dufky flefh-colouri naked far above the knees: 

 claws dufky. 

 Pla-ce. This Pallas mentions as a nondefcript ; and was met with by 



him on the coaft of Holland, caft afhore between the villages of 

 Catwick and Scheveningen, in the winter 1760. 



5. Marbled Guillemot, ArB. Zool. N° 438. pi. 22. 



MARBLED G. £„,. M.tf. 



?l. XCV1. 

 Description. Hp H I S is larger than the little Auk : and is ten inches in length. 

 The bill comprefled a little on the fides, rather (lender, and 

 one inch in length : crown of the head dufky : upper part of the 

 body tranfverfely barred with tawny, chefnut, and blackifh brown, 

 as far as the tail, which is fhort and black : the wing coverts 

 dufky, fome of the larger edged with white : quills black : the 

 chin and throat are dufky, mixed with irregular blotches of white : 

 fides of the neck plain duiky : breaft,. belly, and vent, irregularly 

 barred and undulated with dufky and white, changing to the laft 

 at the vent : legs and toes of a pale orange : webs and claws 

 black. 



Male and female much alike. 

 Place. The above inhabits Prince William's Sound, on the weftern 



coaft of America ■, from whence the pair in the Leverian Mujeum 

 was brought. One in the poiTeffion of Sir Jojeph Banks was found 

 at Kamtfchatka* 



Genus 



