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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 singular 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, Latham.) 
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, Rail, 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. 436.— Will. (Angl.) p. 324.— 
Albin, 1. 1. 84. — Edw. t. 359. f. 1. — Lat/r. Syn. 6. p. 329. 1. — lb. Supp. 265. — 
Leivin’s Br. Birds, 6. t. 220 — Pult. 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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