80 GUILLEMOT. 



called by the Cossacs, Ivoshik, or Post Boy : very numerous in all 

 seasons at Hudson's Bay, called there Sesekesewuck ; is found also 

 about the North Cape of Lapland ; the flesh is sometimes eaten, and 

 said to be not unpleasant. 



A.— hid. Orn. ii. 797. Gen. Syn. vi. 333. 1. A. 



Larger than the last. Bill black; plumage the same; several of 

 the middle wing coverts tipped with white, forming a broad, oblong, 

 spot across the wing ; second quills also marked with white, meeting 

 first in an acute angle; legs red. 



Inhabits Aoonalashka. — Sir Joseph Banks. 



B.— Uria minor striata, Bm. vi. 78. Id. 8vo. ii. 379. Klein, 140. 1 ? Tern. Man. 610. 



Id. Ed. ii. p. 926. 

 Uria Balthica, Brun. No. 116? 

 Spotted Greenland Dove, Gen. Syn. vi. 333. B. Edw. pi. 50. Bewick, ii. p. 181. 



Ornith. Diet. 



In this the upper parts are brownish black, transversely barred 

 with a darker colour ; sides of the head, and all beneath, from the 

 chin, dusky white, barred with pale ash-colour; wing coverts white, 

 part of them mixed with black ; legs dirty flesh-colour. 



Found at Greenland. This is the winter plumage of the mature 

 bird. 



C— Uria Balthica, Brun. No. 115. Gen. Syn. vi. 334. C. 



This has the head, neck, and breast white, very lightly spotted 

 with black ; back black, some of the feathers edged with white ; the 

 belly pure white; wings and tail black, with a white patch on the 

 coverts. — Brought from Christiansoe, called there Sildeperris, and is 

 a bird in the change of feathers on the approach of winter. 



