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SKETCHES OF EUROPEAN ORNITHOLOGY. 
on each side, white. The head and inferior parts of the female, according to 
Gould’s figure, are of a dusky greenish-yellow : occiput dusky, and apparently 
destitute of the black crescent. Food and nidification unknown. 
Little Auk, Mergulus (formerly Alca ) alle ,— Uria alle of Temminck,— 
Mergulus melanoleucos of Ray,—G uillemot nain, Fr. —Uria minore, It. —der 
Kleine Aik, G. —Two figures illustrative of the Summer- and Winter-plumage of 
‘the bird, delineated with great truth and spirit. 
The genus Procellaria , as constituted by Linnasus, included all the sea-birds 
furnished with tubular nostrils. Subsequently, it has been parcelled out by 
naturalists into several genera; three of which, Procellaria , Puffinus, and Tha- 
lassidroma , contain European species. The concluding plate of Mr. Gould’s 
Fourth Part exhibits a nobly-executed figure of the typical species of the first,— 
the Fulmar Petrel, Pr. Glacialis —Petrel fulmar, Fr. —The following are the 
generic characters of Procellaria , as now restricted: Beak thick, dilated at the 
tip, sulcated : upper mandible hooked; lower straight and slightly truncated. 
Nostrils united in a single tube. Legs moderate: a claw in place of the 
hind-toe. 
The cautious and “ tardigrade” Temminck, we may in conclusion observe, 
distributed the species of the Linneean genus Procellaria into three sections or 
sub-genera, respectively designated Proper , Puffin , and Swallow Petrel , and 
comprehending the following European species : 1 . Pr. Glacialis; 2. Pr.puffinus, 
Pr. Anglorum , and Pr. obscura ; 3. Pr. pelagica, and Pr. Leachii. And it is, 
in our opinion, questionable whether the Duchman’s, after all, be not the best, as 
it is evidently the most natural, arrangement., The Fulmar Petrel constitutes 
the type of the new genus Fulmarus , of “ Mil Mihi Stephens.”* 
Paradise-Street, Birmingham, 
Mag 30, 1836. 
* Part IV. 
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Species . 
From a retrospect of our analysis of the first'four Parts of Mr. Gould’s splendid work, it will 
be seen that eighty-seven species of birds only have yet been delineated, instead of one hundred 
_twenty-five in each Part—as we were led, from the prospectus, to anticipate. From the com¬ 
mencement, we were of opinion that the Birds of Europe could not be completed in less than 
