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LESSER GUILLEMOT.  Cuzass Il. 
A. Lesser. Uria Troile. 8. U. supra ni- Uria Svarbag. 
Descri 
TION 
gra, subtus genis fasciaque Islandis Stutnefur, Svartbakur. 
alarum alba. Lath. Ind.orn. Ringuia. Brunnich, No. 110- 
797. id. Syn. vi. 332. Scopolt, No. 103. 
Colymbus minor. Gm. Lin. Br. Zeol.138. Arct. Zool. it. 
585. ; 23h. 
» THE weight is nineteen ounces: the length 
sixteen inches; the breadth twenty-six. The 
bill two inches and a half long, shaped like that 
of the preceding species, but weaker. The 
top of the head, the whole upper part of the 
body, wings and tail are of a darker color than 
the former; the cheeks, throat, and all the 
lower side of the body are white; from the cor- 
ner of the eye is a dusky stroke, pointing to the 
hind part of the head ; the tips of the secondary 
feathers white; the legs are black; the tail very 
short, and consists of twelve feathers. 
These birds frequent the /Velsh coasts in the 
winter time, but that very rarely; where they 
breed is unknown to us; having never observed 
them on the rocks among the congenerous birds. 
These and the black-billed auks haunt the Furth 
of Forth during winter in flocks innumerable, 
in pursuit of sprats. ‘They are called there 
Morrots: they all retire before spring.* 
* Dr. Latham does not allow this to be a distinct species, but 
merely the young of the preceding. Ep. 
