82 GUILLEMOT. 



5.— WHITE GUILLEMOT. 



Uria lacteola, Ind. Orn. ii. 798. 

 Colymbus lacteolus, Gm. Lin. i. 583. 

 Cepphus lacteolus, Pall. Spic. v. p. 33. 

 White Guillemot, Gen. Syn. vi. 335. 



SIZE of the Black Guillemot. Bill and eyelids brownish flesh- 

 colour ; inside of the mouth white ; irides brown ; head and body as 

 white as snow; back, wings, and base of the tail, pale grey, the 

 rest of the last white, and somewhat pointed in shape; quills whitish, 

 the shafts inclining to brown, the outer one longest; all the secon- 

 daries nearly equal in length ; legs dusky flesh-colour, naked far 

 above the knees ; claws dusky. 



Dr. Pallas mentions this bird as a nondescript, met with by him 

 on the Coast of Holland ; cast ashore, between the villages of Cat- 

 wick and Scheveningen, in the winter, 1760. 



A. — Colymbus novus, Naturf. xiii. 192. Gm. Lin. i. 584. 



In this bird the upper parts are greyish white; breast and belly 

 pure white ; between the shoulders black; head and neck white ; 

 on the sides of the head a blackish spot ; on the wing some mixture 

 of blackish ; second quills white at the tips; the bill is black, base 

 beneath yellowish, and near the tip an obsolete tooth. 



This bird is said to be of the size of the Teal, and met with on 

 the River Rhine. It is probable, that both the last are Varieties of 

 the Black Guillemot. 



