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ORD. III. GEN. V. GUILLEMOT. 



SPE. II. BLACK GUILLEMOT. 



PL 222. 



Colymbus grylle. Lin. Syft. I. p. 220. 



Le petit Guillemot noir. Brif. Orn. VI. p. 76. 



This fpecies is fourteen inches long, twenty-two in breadth, and weighs 

 fourcten ounces. The bill is an inch and half long, ftraight, (lender, and 

 black. : the infide of the mouth, orange colour : the whole of the plumage is 

 black, except a fquare fpot of white on each wing, and the tips of the lefs quill 

 feathers, and inner coverts of the wings, which are white : the legs, fcarlet : 

 claws, black. 



It breeds in the northern parts of Great Britain, makes its neft on the 

 ground, and lays one egg ; for which fee PI. XLIX. Fig. 2. 



