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COLYMBUS TROILE, 



FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. 



Generic Character. 



Bill flender and fharp-pointed, the upper mandible 

 • flightly curving towards the tip, the bafe covered 

 i with fhort downy feathers. 

 Noftrils linear, placed in a furrow near the bafe. 

 Toes three before, webbed. 



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;Colymbus Troile. Lin. Syfi. 1. p. 220. 2. 

 •Uria Troile. Lath. Ind. Om. 2. p. 796. 1. 

 ■Foolish Guillemot. Br. Zool. 2. 234. Ib.fol. 138. 



tab. H. 3. <5>*. 6. p. 



329, 1. 7£. fupt. p. 265. 



Mot/. On*. Diff. Bewick's 



Br. Birds, Ft. 2. p. 161. 



I S fpecies weighs about one pound and a half, its 

 length is near eighteen inches, and its breadth about twenty- 

 feven inches ; bill three inches long, fliarp-pointed, the bafe 

 covered with fhort downy feathers ; infide of the mouth yel- 

 low ; legs placed very far behind ; nails ftrong. Colours 

 alike in both fexes. 



Thefe birds are very numerous on many parts of our coaft, 



where they congregate with the razor-bill and puffin ; in their 



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economy they much refemble the latter bird • they arrive in 

 mild feafons from the middle to the latter end of April, and 



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