DOVEKIE. 
SEA DOVE. EITTLE AUK. 
Alle Ar.I.E. 
Char. Head, neck, and upper parts black ; wings with small patch of 
white, sometimes divided by a black bar ; under parts white ; bill black • 
legs red, I.ength about inches. ’ ’ 
In winter the chin and throat are white, and in spring and fall the 
white is more or less varied with black. 
Nest. On a ledge of an ocean cliff, or any high elevation adjacent to 
the sea. There i.s no receptacle for the egg, which is laid on the bare rock 
or amid loose stones. 
P-gS- I : pale greenish blue, sometimes streaked with buff; average 
size 1.85 X 1.30. ’ ^ 
This neat and singular little bird, with a quaint resemblance 
to the Columbine tribe, is known to mariners by the name of 
the Greenland Dove : and in this vicinity it is also called the 
Pigeon Diver. It inhabits, however, a region w'here the gentle 
cooing of the Dove is never heard. It dwells for within the 
Arctic Circle, approaching the very Pole, having been obtained 
