BLACK GUILLEMOT. 
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In an apparently young bird the upper plumage 
is rather darker, the throat and fore part of the neck 
are white, that colour extending above the auricu- 
lars ; but on the sides where it joins the dark 
colours and in front of the neck, the feathers are 
tipped with greyish black, showing a slightly mot- 
led appearance, 
THE BLACK GUILLEMOT. 
Uria grylle. 
PLATE XIV. 
Colymlms grylle, Linn . — Guillemot a miroir blanc, Tcmm . — 
Greenland Dove, or Black Guillemot of British authors . — 
Spotted Guillemot ( the young). 
This species, differing in colour and marking from 
all the others, is a more northern bird ; the coasts of 
the south of Scotland being near to its southern 
range in Britain. Mr. Yarrell, however, mentions 
having seen it on the Hampshire coast, and his 
knowledge of its occurrence off Dorsetshire, De- 
vonshire, and Cornwall. Northward, we have seen 
it ourselves around the precipitous parts of the 
Isle of Man, where, we have no doubt, that it 
was at the time breeding; and on the eastern 
