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SPECIES VI. The 
Guillem, Guillemot, Skout, Kiddaw, 
Sea-hen. Wil. orn. 324. 
Raii fyn. av. 120. 
The Lavy. Martin's voy. St. Kilda. 
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HIS fpecies weighs twenty-four oun¬ 
ces : the length feventeen inches : the 
breadth twenty-feven and a half: the 
bill is three inches long 5 black, ftrait, and (harp 
pointed : near the end of the lower mandible is a 
fmall procels j the mlide of the mouth yellow: 
the feathers on the upper part of the bill are fhort, 
and foft like velvet: from the eye to the hind 
part of the head is a fmall divifion of the feathers. 
The head, neck, back, wings, and tail are of a 
deep moufe color; the tips of the lefter quil fea- 
D S. [Clafs II. 
Guillemot. Plate 3. 
Edzv. av. 359. Fig. i. 
Uria. Brijjon av. VI. 70. Tab. 6. 
Fig. 1. 
Alca. Lomvia. Lin. [yft. 130. 
thers white : the whole under fide of the body 
is of a pure white : the legs dufky. 
Thefe birds are found in amazing numbers on 
the hio-h cliffs on feveral of our coafts, and appear 
at the fame time as the auk. They are very 
Ample birds; for notwithftanding they are (hot at, 
and fee their companions killed by them, they 
will not quit the rock. Like the auk, they lay 
only one egg, which is very large ; fome are of 
a fine pale blue, others white, fpotted, or moft 
elegantly ftreaked with lines crofting each other 
in all diredfions. 
SPECIES VII. 
r I ^ H E weight is nineteen ounces : the 
length fixteen inches : the breadth 
twenty-fix. The bill two inches and 
a half long, fhaped like the Guillemots, but 
weaker. The top of the head, the whole upper 
part of the body, wings and tail are of the fame 
color with the former : the cheeks, throat, and all 
the lower fide of the body are white: from the 
The leffer Guillemot. 
corner of the eye is a dufky ftroke, pointing to 
■ the hind part of the head : the legs are dufky : 
the tail very fhort, and confifts of twelve feathers. 
Thefe birds frequent our coafts in the winter 
time ; but that very rarely : where they breed is 
unknown to us : havino- never obferved them on 
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the rocks among the congenerous birds. 
SPECIES VIII. The black Guillemot. Plate 4* 
Greenland-dove, or Sea-turtle. JVil. 
orn. 326. 
Raii fyn. av. 121 . 
Ray's it in. 183^ 192. 
^HE length of this fpecies is fourteen 
inches : the breadth twenty-two : the 
bill is an inch and a half long ; ftrait, 
flender, and black $ the infide of the mouth red : 
The Scraber, Martin's voy . St. 
Kilda. 32. 
Uria minor nigra. Rrijfonav.Xl.76. 
Alca grylle. Lin. Jyft. 130. 
on each wing is a large bed of white, which in 
young birds is fpotted : the tips of the Idler quil 
feathers, and the inner coverts of the wings, are 
white : except thefe, the whole plumage is black. 
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