A L C A A L L E. 
LITTLE AWK. 
Generic Character. See hXzd. Impennis. 
Synonyms, 
Alca Alle. Lin, Syft, i. p. 2ii. 5. 
Greenland Dove. Albins Birds ^ 1, tab, B^, 
Little Awk. Br. ZooL 2. 233. iak 82. 3.foL 137. 
tab, H. fig, 1. Ar^. ZooL 2. tah 
429. Lath, Syn^ 5. p. 327. ii» 
Lnd, Orn. 2, p. 795. lo. Mont. Orn. . 
BicI, Vol t. Bewick's Br. Birds, Ft. 
2, p, 158. 
XjENGTH about nine inches. Bill flrong, fliort, and blunt, 
feathered on the upper fides nearly half its length ; irides 
reddifh hazel ; 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. Go ugh, of Middlefhaw, 
informs us, that one was caught apparently much exhaufled, 
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 exhaufled ftate^ at various places about Kendal 
and Lancafter.'* 
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