GUILLEMOT. 7.9 



Columbus Groenlandicus, Klein, Av. 108. 2. 



Uria minor nigra, Columba Groenlandica, Bris. vi. 70. 3. Id. 8vo. ii. 379. Raii, 



121. 6. Will. 245. Ray's Trav. 183. 192. N. Act. Stock. 1781. 3. No. 4- p. 224. 



Das Schwarze Taucherhuhn, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 772. 



Le petit Guillemot noir, Bvf. ix. 354. 



Kaiaver, or Kaier, Hist. Kamts. 157. Ph. Trans. Ii. p. 481. 



Greenland Dove, Sea Turtle, Alb. ii. pi. 80. Will. Engl. 320. And. Gr. ii. pi. 1. 



Black Guillemot, Gen. Syn. vi. 332. Br. Zool. ii. No. 23G. Id.fol. 138. pi. H. 4. 



/d. 1812. ii. p. 103. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 437. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 179. Lewin, vi. 



pi. 221. /rf. xlvi.— the egg. Walcot, i. pi. 95. Pw/f. Dor*, p. 17. Orn. Diet. 



Sf Supp. Edin. Ph. Journ. No. xiii. p. 101. 



LENGTH fourteen inches, breadth twenty-two ; weight twenty- 

 four ounces. Bill one inch and a half long, straight, slender, black, 

 the inside of the mouth red ; irides brown ; general colour of the 

 plumage black, except a large portion of white on the wing coverts, 

 and the second quills tipped with white ; legs scarlet, claws black. 

 This is the colour of the adult in the summer dress. The male and 

 female do not differ in plumage. 



This species inhabits the Bass Island, in Scotland, and the Isle 

 of St. Kilda, coming to the latter in March ; makes the nest far under 

 ground, or in a hole in the rock, the end of May, and lays generally 

 two eggs, with blackish spots; breeds in numbers in Zetland, where 

 the greater part remain throughout the winter: it frequents also the 

 Farn Isles, off the Coast of Northumberland, mostly in pairs; they 

 dive well, hence are called by some Diving Pigeons.* A few breed 

 annually on the Coasts of Wales, near Tenby, j - and on the rocks 

 of Llandidno, in Caernarvonshire : J common in the Bay of Dublin 

 throughout the summer, and feeds on small fish ; the eggs are eaten 

 by the inhabitants, and the skins, with the feathers attached, used 

 for warm garments, in the same manner as those of Auks; and the 

 skin of the legs serves as a bait to their fishing lines. Is found also 

 at Spitzbergen ;§ well known at Kamtschatka, where it multiplies 

 among the high rocks in the sea, and whistles very loud ; hence 



* Arct Zool. f Orn. Diet. X Arct. Zool. 



§ Phipp's Voy.— There called Tyste, or Doveca. 



