350 
ALCINjE. uria. 
Occasionally procured in Maine. Not very rare off the coast of 
Nova Scotia. Breeds from Hudson’s Bay to the Arctic Seas. 
Uria Brunnichii, Bonap. Syn. p. 424. 
Uria Brunnichii, Brunnich’s Guillemot, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. 
p. 477. 
Large-billed Guillemot, Ndtt. Man. v. ii. p. 529. 
Large-billed Guillemot, Uria Brunnichii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 336. 
481. 4. Uria Troile, Linn. Foolish Guillemot. Murre. 
Plate CCXVIII. Male and Female. 
Bill rather stout^ black ; feet black general colour of upper parts 
greyish-blackj sides of the head and throat tinged with brown ; lower 
fore neck, breast, abdomen, edges of wings, and tips of secondaries 
white ; sides streaked with greyish-black ; a line of white encircling 
the eye, and extending upwards of an inch behind it, but in some in- 
dividuals wanting. In winter, the sides of the head and neck, the 
fore part of the latter, with the lower parts, white. 
Male, 17L 30. 
More or less abundant during winter on the coast of Massachusetts 
and Maine, rarely as far south as New York. Breeds in vast multi- 
tudes on the Rocky Islands oP the Gulf of St Lawrence, Newfound- 
land, and Labrador. Occasionally found in Hudson’s Bay, 
Uria Troile, Bonap. Syn. p. 424. 
Uria Troile, Foolish Guillemot, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 477. 
Foolish Guillemot or Murre, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 526. 
Foolish Guillemot, Uria Troile, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 142. 
482. 5. Uria Grylle, Linn. Black Guillemot. 
Plate CCXIX. Adult in summer and winter, and Young. 
Bill shorter than the head, rather slender, black ; feet vermilion, 
tinged with carmine ; general colour of plumage deep black, on the 
upper parts tinged with green, on the lower with brown ; a patch on 
each wing, including the secondary coverts and some of the small 
feathers white, of which colour also are the axillars and lower wing- 
coverts. In winter the general colour of the plumage white ; the sides 
of the head, the neck all round, the lower parts, and the rump being 
of that colour, more or less shaded with grey ; upper part of head ob- 
scurel}^ mottled with grejdsh-black ; back and scapulars black, each 
feather tipped with greyish-white, those of the latter more broadly ; 
wings and tails brownish -black, the former with a conspicuous white 
patch as in summer. Young at first covered with soft, thick, brown- 
ish-black down. 
Adult, 13|, 21 
Accidental as far south, on the eastern coast, as New York ; not 
rare from thence eastward, during winter. Breeds from the Bay of 
