( 4* ) 



ORD. III. GENUS V. GUILLEMOT. 



Bin, (lender, flrong, pointed: the upper mandible flightly bending 



toward the end: the bafe covered with foft fhort feathers. 

 Nostrils, lodged in a hollow, near the bafe of the bill. 

 Tongue, (lender, almoft the length of the bill. 

 Toes, three; hind toe wanting. 



SPECIES I. FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. 



PI. 22 1. 



This bird weighs near twenty-fix ounces ; is in length feventeen inches ; in 

 breadth, twenty-feven. The bill is three inches long, and black : the feathers 

 on the upper part of the bill, fhort, and foft like velvet : the head, neck, 

 back, wings, and tail, of grey brown, lighted on the neck, and deepeft on the 

 head : tips of the lefs quill feathers, white : all the under parts of the body, 

 the fame : legs, dufky. 



It is very numerous on our coafts, and called by failors the fea-hen, from 

 the domeftic artlefTnefs of its manners. It lays only one egg, which is very 

 large, of a bluifh white, or pale fea-green colour, and varioufly fpotted and 

 ftreaked with black : fee PI. XLIX. Fig. I. 



The lefs guillemot is the young of this fpecics the firft year. 



