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1. FooLtsu. 
DescriP- 
TION. 
FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. Crass IL 
GENUS XVIII. GUILLEMOT. 
Bry slender, strong, pointed; the upper man- 
dible slightly bending towards the end; 
the base covered with soft short feathers. 
Nosrrits lodged in a hollow near the base. 
Toncue slender, almost the length of the bill. 
Tors: no back toe. 
Uria Troile. U. corpore nigro Fist. @ois. ix. 350. Pl. 
pectore abdomineque niveo, Enl. 903. 
remigibus secundariis apiee Lommia. N. Com. Petr. iv. 
albis. Lath. Ind. orn. 796. 414. 
id. Syn. vi. 329. ad. Sup.1. Colymbus Troile. Gm. Lin. 
265. 585. 
Guillem, Guillemot, Skout, Faun. Suec. sp. 149. 
Kiddaw, Sea-hen. Vil. orn. 
324. 
Rai Syn. av. 120. 
The Lavy. Martin's voy. St. 
Kilda, 32. 
Edw. av. 359. fig. 1. 
Islandis & Norvegis Lomvie, 
Langivie, Lomrifvie, Stor- 
fugl. Brunnich, 108. 
Sea-Taube, or Groenlandis- 
cher Taucher. Frisch, ii. 
185. 
Br. Zool. 138. H. 3. Arct. 
Zool. ii. 229. 
Uria, le Guillemot. Brisson 
av. vi. 70. Tab. 6. fig. 1. 
Tuts species weighs twenty-four ounces ; the 
length is seventeen inches; the breadth twenty- 
seven and a half. The bill is three inches long, 
black, strait, and sharp pointed; near the end 
of the lower mandible is a small process ; the in- 
