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THE LAEGE-BILLED GUILLEMOT. 
short, anteriorly scutellate, laterally reticulate ; hind toe wanting ; anterior 
toes scutellate, of moderate length, connected by emarginate webs, the inner 
toe much shorter than the outer, which is nearly as long as the middle. 
Claws rather small, slightly arched, compressed, rather acute. 
Plumage dense, blended, rather glossy on the upper parts. Wings of 
moderate length, narrow, pointed ; primaries tapering, the first longest, the 
rest rapidly graduated, secondaries rounded. Tail very short, even, of 
sixteen elastic feathers. 
Bill orange-yellow ; feet greyish-yellow. The general colour of the upper 
parts is black, as are the cheeks, the upper part of the fore neck and its 
sides ; the lower parts white. Two decurved white bands on the sides of 
the head, one commencing over the eye, the other at the angle of the mouth, 
both being formed by elongated, linear, acuminate feathers. The shafts of 
the wing-feathers are reddish-brown above, white beneath. 
Length to end of tail 154 inches, to end of claws 161 ; bill along the ridge 
lfL not including the outline of the knob, which is fL high, along the edge 
of lower mandible Iff, breadth of upper mandible below the knob, 2 j l ; wing 
from flexure 6ft ; tarsus lf| ; inner toe If 2 , its claw A ; middle toe 14, its 
claw T S 1 ; outer toe 1 T \, its claw A* 
THE LARGE-BILLED GUILLEMOT. 
Uria Brunnichii, Sabine. 
PLATE CCCCLXXIL— Adult Male. 
I have never observed this bird on any part of the coast of our Middle 
Districts, and, although I was told that it not unfrequently occurred about 
the Bay of Boston, I failed in my endeavours to procure it there. The 
specimen from which my figure was made, was sent to me in ice, along with 
several other rare birds, from Bastport in Maine. I received it quite fresh 
and in excellent plumage, on the 18th of February, 1833. It had been shot 
along with several other individuals of the same species while searching for 
food in the waters of Pasmaquody Bay, which were then covered with 
broken ice. Its flight was described by Mr. Curtis, who sent it to me, as 
