Class II. BLACK GUILLEMOT. 



throat, and all the lower fide of the body are 

 white : from the corner of the eye is a dufky ftroke, 

 pointing to the hind part of the head: the tips 

 of the fecondary feathers white: the legs are black: 

 the tail very fhort, and confifts of twelve feathers. 



Thefe birds frequent the Welch coafts in the 

 winter time; but that very rarely: where they breed 

 is unknown to us $ having never obferved them 

 on the rocks among the congenerous birds. Thefe 

 and the black-billed Auks haunt the Firth of Forth 

 during winter in flocks innumerable, in purfuit of 

 fprats. They are called there Morrots : they all 

 retire before fpring. 



521 



Greenland- clove, or Sea- 

 turtle. WiL orn. 326. 



Rail fyn. a<v. 121. 



Ray's itin. 183, 192. 



Peifte. Gunner, tab. 4. 



Turtur maritimus infulae 

 Bafs. Sib. hifi. Fife, 46. 



The Scraber. Martin's <voy. 

 St. Kilda. 32. 



Cajour, Pynan. N. Com. Petr. 

 IV. 418. 



Uria minor nigra, le petit 



Guillemot noir, Brijfonwv. 236, Black. 



VI. 7 6. 

 Colymbus Grylle. Lin. fyji. 



220. 

 Faun. Suec fp, 148. 

 Iflandis Teifta. Norvegis Tei- 



fte. Groenlandis Sarpak, 



Brunnicb, 113. 

 Groenlandifche Taube, 



Frifcb, II. 185. 

 Br. Zool. 138. 



HT^HE len v gth of this fpecies is fourteen inch- Descri?, 



-*■ es: the breadth twenty-two: the bill is an 

 inch and a half long ; {trait, flender, and black : 

 the infide of the mouth red : on each wing is a 



M m 4 large 



