PLATE CCXXX. 



ALCA ALLE, fan. 



. LITTLE AUK, feinale. 



Anseres. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Bill toothlefs, fliort, compreffed, convex^ often tranfverfely fur- 

 rowed ; lower mandible gibbous near the bafe : noftrils linear : legs 

 iMoftly three toed. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Bill fmootb, conic; beneath, and tips of the hind quill feathers 

 white : legs black. 



Alca Alle : roftro laevi conico, abdomine toto fubtus remigumque 

 pofticarum apicibus albas, pedibus nigris. Linn. 

 Fn, Suec. U<2,.— GmeL Syji. Nat. 554. 5.— 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. 795. 10. 



Alca Alle. Faun. Groenl. N®. 54. 



Uria 



