A L C A A L L E. 



LITTLE AWK, 



Generic Character, Alca Impennis. 

 Synonyms. 



Alca Alle. Lin. Syft, i, p, 211- 5. 



Greenland Dove. Albins Birds, i.taLBQ. 



Little Awk. Br. Zool 2. 233. tab. 82. Ikfol i^'j, 

 tab, H. 4.. fig, 1. Jr^, Zool. 2. tab, 

 429. Lath. Syn. 5. p. 327. 11. 

 Lnd. Orn, 2. p. 795. 10. Mont. Orn, 

 Bicf. Vol. 1. Bewick's Br, Birds, Ph 

 2. p. 158. 



Length about nine inches. Bill ftrong, fliort, and blunt, 

 feathered on the upper fides nearly half its length ; irides 

 reddifh hazel j legs and feet ftrong. Colours of the fexes 

 alike. 



This is a rare fpecies, being but very feldom met with fo far 

 fouth as Britain, is common in Iceland, Greenland, Spitzber- 

 gen, and Newfoundland ; Mr. Gough, of Middlefhaw, 

 informs us, " that one was caught apparently much exhaufted, 

 in a brook which runs through his garden, ~ Nov. 21, 1807 

 and adds, ** that he received accounts of its being feen generally 

 in the fame exhaufted ftate, at various places about Kendal 

 and Lancafter.'* 



