GENUS 90. URIA. GUILLEMOT. 
SPECIES. URIA ALEE. 
LITTLE GUILLEMOT.* 
[Plate LXXIV.— Fig. 5.] 
llria alle, Teajm. Olan. dWrn.p. 928. — Jlca alle, Linn. Syst. ed. 
12, tom. I, p. 211, 5. — Gmel. Syst. i, p. 554, 5. — Ind. Orn. p. 
795, 10. — Ur ia minor, Briss. vi, p. 73, 2. — Le Petit Guillemot 
femetle, PL Enl. 917. — Small black and white Diver, Edwards, 
pi. 91. — Little Auk, Lath. Gen. Syn., iu, p. 327. — Penn. Arct. 
ZooL JVo. 429. — Bewick, ii, p. 158. — Peai.e’s Museum, JVo. 
2978. 
Of the history of this little stranger, but few particulars are 
known. With us it is a very rare bird; and, when seen, it is 
generally in the vicinity of the sea. The specimen from which 
the figure in the plate was taken, was killed at Great Egg-Har- 
bour, in the month of December, 1811, and was sent to Wilson 
as a great curiosity. It measured nine inches in length, and 
fourteen in extent; the bill, upper part of the head, back, wings 
and tail, were black; the upper part of the breast and hind-head, 
were gray, or white mixed with ash; the sides of the neck, 
whole lower parts, and tips of secondaries, were pure white; 
feet and legs black, shins pale flesh colour; above each eye there 
was a small spot of white;! the lower scapulars streaked slightly 
with the same. 
The little Guillemot is said to be but a rare visitant of the 
British isles. It is met with in various parts of the north, even 
as far as Spitzbergen; is common in Greenland, in company with 
* Named in the plate Little Auk. 
t In Peale’s Museum there is an excellent specimen of this species, which 
has hkewise a smaller spot below each eye. 
