BRITISH BIRDS. 
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SPOTTED GUILLEMOT. 
This is a variety of the lafl: fpecies, which the 
author has not feen. It is thus defcribed by La- 
tham: — In this the plumage is iii patches of 
white and black on the upper parts, and all beneath 
white. In Brunnich’s bird the belly was fpotted 
black and white : he fuppofed it to be a bird of the 
firft year.’’ 
Latham enumerates feveral other varieties of this 
fpecies of birds, but as they have not been obferv- 
ed to vifit the Britifh Ifles, they do not come with- 
in the fcope of this work. There are, however, 
others which are occafionally met with in this coun- 
try, but whether the differences may not be owing 
to age or fex, is not yet afcertained. One of thefe, 
prefented in 06 lober, 1802, by the Rev. H. Cotes, 
of Bedlington, » differed from the leffer Guillemot 
in its bill’s being much ihorter, meafuring only 
about an inch and a half on the ridge of the upper 
mandible, and in having the hinder part of the head 
furrounded by a continuation of the white feathers 
which cover the cheeks, but mixed with dulky fpots. 
