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the spring- she becomes more clamorous, and impatient of confinement ; 

 but at all times will approach those persons in the habit of feeding- her, 

 and will take food from the hand, at the same time uttering- those plain- 

 tive and harmonious notes for which the species have been remarkable, 

 and which are always attended with a sing-nlar jerk of the head. She 

 usually carries her neck straight and erect, either upon the water, 

 or when stationary on land ; but in walking', the head is lowered, and 

 the neck reclining- over the back. In the season of love she frequently 

 flaps along the surface of the water, and would undoubtedly fly, if the 

 precaution of annually cutting the feathers of one wing was omitted ; 

 for whatever might have been the wound that was the cause of capti- 

 vity, nature has performed a perfect cure. Her nature is gentle, timid, 

 and sociable ; she will follow those with whom she is acquainted from 

 one side of the menagerie to the other, especially ladies of the family, 

 dressed in white. She is often turned out of her course by a pugna- 

 cious male sheldrake, and acts only offensively when food is the 

 object, and where resentment is not expected. She eats but little 

 grass on land, but will devour aquatic plants occasionally ; barley, how- 

 ever, is her principal food, and she never attempts to touch bread, which 

 is sometimes thrown to other birds ; nor will she devour small fish, 

 which the diving ducks greedily eat. The base of the bill in this 

 specimen is, as usual in adults, of a bright yellow. 



This species visits the lakes of Scotland every winter, but comes 

 more southward only in severe weather. Some few are said to breed 

 in the Orkney isles. It is found in all the northern countries, Iceland, 

 Lapland, the deserts of Tartary, Siberia, and as far as Kamtschatka ; 

 also in America, and it is not uncommon in Hudson's Bay.* 



WILLOCK (Uria Troile, Latmm.) 



Colymbus Troile, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 220. 2.—Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 585 Colymbus 



minor, Ib. 1. 585 Uria, Briss. 6. p. 70. 1. t. 6. f. 1 Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 377.— 



Uria Lomwia, Brunn. 27. p. 108— Uria Troile, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 796. 1. 



— Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. 921. — Lomwia Hoieri, Raii, Syn. p. 120. A. 4 



Will. p. 244. t. 65. — Colymbus Macula nigra pone ocula, Sander. 13. p. 192. — 

 Le Guillemot, Buff. Ois. 9. p. 350. t. 25. — Foolish Guillemot, Br. Zool. 2. No. 

 234.— Ib. fol. 138. t. H. 3.— Arct. Zool. 2. No. AW.— Will. (Angl.) p. 324.— 



Albin, 1. t. 84.— Edw. t. 359. f. 1.— Lat/i. Syn. 6. p. 329. 1.— Ib. Supp. 265 



Lewin's Br. Birds, 6. t. 220 — Putt. Cat. Dorset, p. 17.— Wale. Syn. 1. t. 96 



Don. Br. Birds, 2. t. 28.— Flem. Br. Anim. p. 134 Mont. Orn. Diet. 1.— 



Lesser Guillemot, Penn. Arct. Zool. Supp. 69. — Mont. Orn. Diet, and Supp. 



Provincial. — Guillem. Sea Hen. Scout. Kiddaw. Murre. Lavy. 

 Tinkershire. Lungy. Murot. Scuttock. Murse. Strany. 

 This species weighs about twenty-four ounces ; length seventeen 

 inches. The bill is black, three inches long, strait, sharp pointed ; in- 

 side of the mouth yellow ; irides dusky. The base of the bill is 



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