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BRITISH BIRDS. 
parts, are dufky, inclining to lead-colour : the legs 
and feet dufky, blufhed with red. 
Some naturalifts fufpedl that the lefler Guille- 
mot is only the young of the foregoing fpecies ; 
but this is not yet afcertained, neither is it known 
where they breed. They, however, feldom affo- 
ciate with the Guillemots that breed oh the Britifh 
Ihores, which they vifit only during the winter fea- 
fon, and almofl; all of them retire northward in the 
fpring. V 
The bird from which the above drawing and de- 
fcription* were taken, was caught alive at Tyne- 
mouth, in the latter end of September, i8oi : the 
tide had left it in a fituation furrounded by rocks, 
upon the flat fand, from which it could not raife 
itfelf to take flight. While the drawing was ma- 
king, it fat under a table trimming its feathers, and 
appeared perfedly at eafe, and not the leafl alarm- 
ed at the peeping curiofity of the children who fur- 
rounded it. When this bufinefs was finifhedj it 
was taken and fet down upon an open part of the 
fliore, where it immediately began to waddle to- 
wards the water, with the whole leg and foot ex- 
tended on the ground, and as foon as it reached 
its beloved element, it flapped its wings, darted 
through the furge, dived, and appeared in that 
place no more. 
