BRITISH BIRDS. 
^7S 
GUILLEMOT. 
WILLOCK, FOOLISH GUILLEMOT, SKOUT, KIDDAW, 
SEA-HEN, LAVY, OR STRANY. 
{Colymlus Troika Lin . — Le Guillemot^ JBufF.) 
The Guillemot is a plump heavy bird in pro- 
portion to its fize, weighing about twenty-four 
ounces, and meafuring only feventeen inches in 
length, and twenty-feven and a half in breadth. 
The bill is a blueilh black colour, about two inches 
and three-quarters long, from the tip to the cor- 
ners of the mouth, the infide of which is yellow : 
both mandibles are flightly notched near their 
points : irides hazel : from each eye to the hinder 
part of the head, a narrow line is formed by a fin- 
gular divifion of the feathers, which here, as well 
as on the head and neck, are clofe and fmooth, and 
of a dull dufty moufe-colour ; the back, wings, and 
tail are nearly the fame, but have a lead-coloured 
eaft: the tips of the lelfer quills, and the bread, 
