412 BLACK GUILLEMOT. ClafsII. 



VIII. The BLACK GUILLEMOT. 



Greenland-dove, or Sea-turtle. 418. 



Wil. orn. 326. Uria minor nigra, le petit 



Raiifyn. av. 121. Guillemot noir. Stiffen av. vi. 



May's itin. 183, 192. 76. 



Feifte, Gunner, tab. 4. Colymbus Grylle. Lin.Jyfi. 220. 



Turtur maritimus infute Bafs. Faun. Suec.fp. 148. 



Sih. bift. Fife. 46. IJlandh Teifta, Norvegis Teifte. 



The Scraber. Martins <voy. St. Greenland}* Sarpak. Brunnicb, 



Kilda. 32. 1.1 3. ™ 



Cajour, Pynan. N. Com.Petr. iv. Br. Zoo/. 138. 



Defer. p~Y~\ H E length of this fpecies is fourteen inches : 

 JL the breadth twenty- two: the bill is an inch 

 and a half long *, ftrait, flender, and black •, the in- 

 fide of the mouth red : on each wing is a large bed 

 of white, which in young birds is fpotted : the tips 

 of the leffer quil-feathers, and the inner coverts of the 

 wings, are white : except thefe, the whole plumage is 

 black. In winter it is laid to change to white : and a 

 variety fpotted with black and white * is not uncom- 

 mon in Scotland. The tail confifts of twelve feathers : 

 the legs are red. 



Thefe birds are found on the Bafsifle in Scotland-, 

 in the JJle of St. Kilda; and, as Mr. Ray imagines, in 

 the Farn- (/lands off the coait of Northumberland; we 

 have alio feen it on the rocks of Llandidno in Caernar- 

 vcnfiire. It vifits St. Hilda's in March : makes its 

 nefl far under ground ; and lays a grey egg ; or as 



• The (potted Greenland Dove cfMr.WwW/, plate 50. 



Steller 



