78 GUILLEMOT. 



3.— BRUNNICH'S GUILLEMOT. 



Uria Troille, Brun. No. 109. Lin. Trans, xii. p. 538. 



Francsii, Lin. Trans, xii. p. 588. (Dr. Leach) Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. 924. Ross's 



Voy. App. p. Hi. Parry's App. p. ccix. 



LENGTH seventeen inches ; extent of wing two feet ; weight 

 two pounds six ounces. Inside of the throat yellow ; hides dark ; 

 throat and neck sooty brown ; head black ; hind part of the head 

 and neck, back and wings dark sooty brown, the wings being lightest, 

 and the secondaries tipped with white; the feathers of the neck have 

 a peculiar smoothness and softness; from the eye to the hindhead is 

 a line, occasioned by a division of the feathers; belly and all beneath 

 pure white, running up to a point in the neck ; the feathers are very 

 thick, and on being removed, a dark down appears between them 

 and the skin ; legs marbled brown and yellowish ; claws black. 



This is the description of Captain Sabine, who, as well as Dr. 

 Leach, thinks it to be a Species distinct from the Foolish Guillemot. 

 Brunnich observes, that it is like the last named in every particular, 

 except in having a broader and shorter bill, and that even in dried 

 specimens the edges of it are yellowish. 



This bird was found in great abundance in Davis's Straits, and 

 occasionally in Baffin's Bay. A specimen, killed on the 10th June, 

 had the feathers of the throat mottled with white, whence it may be 

 inferred, that it undergoes the same changes from season as the 

 Foolish Species. 



4.— BLACK GUILLEMOT. 



Uria Grylle, Ind. Orn. ii. 797. Brun. No. 113. 



Colymbus Grylle, Lin. i. 220. Fn. suec. No. 148. Gm. Lin. i. 584. Muller, No. 151. 



Act. Nidr. i. 258. t. 4. Frisch, t. 185. N. C. Petf. iv. 418. Mart. Spitz. 56. 



t. L. f. B. Bewick, iii. 57. 2. Lin. Trans, xii. p. 540. Tern. Man. 609. Id. 



Ed. 2d. 925. Parry's App. p. ecix. 



