GUILLEMOT. 83 



6— MARBLED GUILLEMOT .— Pl. clxxi. 



Uria marmorata, hid. Orn. ii. 799. 



Marbled Guillemot, Gen. Si/n. vi. 336. pi. 96. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 438. pi. 



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THIS is larger than the Little Auk, and ten inches in length. 

 The bill is black, somewhat compressed on the sides, slender, and one 

 inch long ; crown of the head dusky ; upper part of the body 

 transversely barred with tawny, chestnut, and blackish brown ; tail 

 short and black ; wing coverts dusky, some of the larger edged with 

 white ; quills black ; chin and throat dusky, blotched irregularly, or 

 marbled with white ; sides of the neck plain dusky ; breast and belly 

 barred, or marbled with dusky and white, changing to the last 

 between the thighs, and on the vent ; legs and toes pale orange ; 

 webs dusky ; claws black. Male and female much alike. 



Inhabits Prince William's Sound, on the west Coast of America; 

 from whence the pair, formerly in the Leverian Museum, was 

 brought. I also met with one in the possession of Sir Joseph 

 Banks, brought from Kamtschatka, and another in the Museum of 

 Mr. Bullock. 



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