1^1 BRITISH BIRDS. 
LITTLE AUK. 
LITTLE BLACK AND WHITE DIVER, GREENLAND DOVE, 
OR SEA-TURTLE. 
[^Alca alky Lin . — Le petit Guillemoty Buff.) 
This is a plump round-fhaped bird, andmeafures 
about nine inches in length. The bill is black, 
jfhort, thick, ftrong, and convex; it is feathered 
from the corners of the mouth half way forward 
towards the point. The crown of the head is flat 
and black ; all the upper parts of the plumage are 
of the fame colour, except a narrow bar of white, 
formed by the tips of the lefler quills acrofs the 
wings, and the fcapulars, which are ftreaked down- 
wards with the fame : the cheeks and under parts 
are white : legs and toes yellowifh ; webs dulky. 
