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ORDER ANSERES. 
GENUS XL. 
COLYMBUS — GUILLEMOT, DIVER, 
AND GREBE. 
This genus is distinguished by the fol- 
lowing characters: — 
jBeafetoothless^subulate^straight^pointed. 
Throat toothed. 
Nostrils linear, at the base of the beak. 
Legs fettered. 
Linnaeus arranges this genus of birds 
in three divisions, the first contains the 
Guillemots. These birds chiefly inhabit 
the sea, have a slender tongue, the size of 
the beak ; the beak compressed and co- 
vered with short feathers at the base, the 
upper mandible a little bent ; flesh tough, 
and, as well as the eggs, nauseous. 
The Guillemots appear to be a stupid 
race of birds : they do not, like many 
