AUK. 



71 



Uria alle, Tern. Man. d'Orn. 611. Id. Ed. 2d. 929. Parry's Voy. App. p. ccx. 



Plautus columbarius, Klein, 146. 1. 



Mergulus melanoleuco9 rostro acuto brevi, Rati, 125. A. 5. Will. 201. t. 59. — lower 



figure. Ross, Voy. App. p. 1. 

 Le petit Guillemot femelle, PL enl. 917. 



Small black and white Diver, &c. Will. Engl. 343. §. iv. pi. 59. Edw. pi. 91. 

 Greenland Dove, Albin, i. pi. 85. 

 Little Auk, Gen. Syn. v. 327. Br. Zool. ii. No. 233. pi. 82. Id.fol. 137. pi. H. 4. 



f. 1. Id. 1812. ii. 158. pi. 27. f. 1. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 429. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 



172. Lewin, vi. pi. 223. Walcot, i. pi. 88. Pult. Dors. p. 17. Orn. Diet, if 



Supp. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length nearly nine inches; breadth about 

 thirteeen. Bill short, stout, somewhat rounded and black ; general 

 colour of the plumage black above, and white beneath ; scapulars 

 streaked with white; the second quills tipped with white, except 

 the four nearest the body, forming a line on the wing; tail of four- 

 teen feathers, of which the two middle exceed the others in length ; 

 legs yellowish brown ; webs black. 



In some the head and neck are wholly black, and a spot of white 

 over the eye, but in other things resemble the former. Fabricius 

 observes, that these differences do not arise from sex, for the male 

 and female are much alike; but that they are only seen with the 

 head and part of the neck black during, the summer season, at which 

 time both sexes appear in this dress, in the same manner as he men- 

 tions in respect to Razor-billed, and Black-billed Auks. 



This inhabits the North of Europe, as far as Spitzbergen, but 

 probably does not extend to Asia; is common in Greenland, found 

 there in company with the Black-billed Species, feeding on the same 

 food ; lays two bluish white eggs, larger than those of a Pigeon ; 

 flies quick, and dives well ; and while swimming it frequently dips 

 the bill into the water; walks better on land than any of the Genus. 

 Is very fat in the stormy season, from the waves dislodging numbers 

 of crabs and small fish, on which it feeds; it is less sought after than 

 any of the tribe, from its size ; but as it is equally stupid, is taken by 

 the same means. In Greenland it is called the Ice Bird, being the 



