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Where found Description. 



Prestholm Island, near Beaumaris in the Isle of 

 Anglesey; also on the Fern Island, near Northum- 

 berland, and in the cliffs about Scarborough, in 

 Yorkshire, and several other places in England. 

 They lay exceeding large eggs, being full three 

 inches long, blunt at one end, and sharp at the 

 other, of a sort of bluish colour, spotted gene- 

 rally with some black spots or strokes. 



THE LESSER GUILLEMOT 



WEIGHS about sixteen ounces. The upper 

 parts of its plumage are darker than those of the 

 former species. The black guillemot is entirely 

 black, except a large mark of white on the wings. 

 In winter, however, this bird is said to change to 

 white ; and there is a variety in Scotland not un- 

 common, which is spotted, and which Mr. Ed- 

 wards has described under the name of the spot- 

 ted Greenland dove. The marbled guillemot, 

 which is found at Kamtschatka, &c. received its 

 name from its plumage, which is dusky, ele- 

 gantly marbled with white. 



GOOSEANDER AND DUN DIFER. 



THIS is the largest of the auk kind, weighing 

 about four pounds. The bill is red; the head 

 is very full of feathers on the top and back part. 

 The plumage is various and beautiful. The head 



