birds. ANSERES. 33. 
*Minuias. Brown-a/h, beneath and chin white ; head and upper A 
of the neck ferruginous i Wing-fpot white before 
behind. ' 
and 
bill 
Furdfcr 
2. Head firiooth ; back black ; belly white ; 
blood-red ; firft quill-feathers black ; tail cinercou*'^ 
Inhabits with the laft, 2) Ajlracani 14! inches long ; f.]i 
much refembles the female of the laft, but wants the 
Oval eye-fpot. 
( 
Black ; head fmooth ; hind-head^ neck, vent, belly 
, — ^ vein, M 
lateral tail-feathers white ; front and cheeks P,/ 
Fork-tailed 
brown ; tail forked. 
Inhabits Curonia, 
Jiill black ; dirty-red at the Tides ; from the ears each ■ 
through the fides of the neck to the breaft a black band' 
Pnfc 
cus. 
Crefted; brown, beneath white; chin and breaft fp‘’‘‘^ 
With black; wings black with a white band. it 
Inhabits Hudfon's Bay ; inches long. _ jj 
llind-kead crefted ; behind the eyes a white band extendiry 
the nape ; lower part of the crejl black ; breajl blueift 
with whitiftr ; legs yellonvilh. 
Cmruieus, Crefted; blue; crown and tail black; chin, belly 
fpot on the wings white. Bi^^e 
Inhabits Hudfon’e Bay ; 14 inches long. 
Bill long, black ; kgs blue. 
a”: 
33. ALCA. Bill toothlefs, fliort, compj^. 
fed, convex, often tranfverfely 
rowed ; lower mandible gibbous 
thebafe : nc/Zrz7i linear : Less 
3-toed. 
Thefe birds principally inlmbit iht ArBic Seat; are very 
j V t r — 1 / 
and build in rabbits’ 
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holes and fiftlires of rocks ; ..tli 
egg ; their colour is pretty uniform ; above black, - . q\ 
white ; the body is fhaped like a duck’s, the bill Wit" 
lique, curved lines tending to the point, which is fti*tp' 
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