BRITISH BIRDS. 
LESSER GUILLEMOT, 
OR MARROT. 
Ringula, 
This fpecies weighs about nineteen ounces, and 
meafures in length fixteen inches, and in breadth 
twenty-fix. The bill is fliaped like that of the laft, 
and is about two inches and a half long ; the ftroke 
formed by the divided feathers behind the eye, is 
dufky, on a white ground : the cheeks, fore part of 
the neck and breaft, tips of the fecondary quills, 
and the whole of the under parts, are white, except 
a few dull fpots on the auriculars, and fome freckles 
on the breaft ; the front and crown of the head, 
back of the neck, and the whole of the upper 
VoL. 11. t Z 
