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Uria grylle; fZatfv:)
T sc northern pari« of Scotland ami th* *
' tw Black fiuUtemot, whidU being tatty ¡tfcwfe, .Lath.') seki. on these isolated
r inter, and nhii'upt and precipitous ».’liHs }
tfiese rock* it di ti «, <- I»* single w h i t e .< t
• ; t ad shortly afteir #r«f conveyed, liys ?»v wkd.&ttta
''^ygfressly adapted i-ifSt Jhey ape teuobwyii. i.r m
. M surface, and to brave with inpponsty felw rm
plaraage, apparently caiiku by a .general i »oaty, ev
-'''bird.is for a considerable period deprived of the si
teuillemot is characterized .luring tlie * , * , ..
'and half black feathers unequally dispersed over ]
I the rigorous , aeaa&on of winter as to. render-die b|
• I characteraen, (6 a certain extent, the ybung of th
the former by having'Che tips of each feather, \vhi
I- white spot yet the wingsfc.at ¡ill times uniform
being yellowish Jm m a instead of ted.
I j Although a fevv pairs off the JiUacfc
) Frith of Forth si iU it is evident
/ I t Sp ears to abound in ihe iircrie cirole,
i l f S l l l l f 40 W 'continental writers, it is few <ili
o f ISngland, but iiti>reitc<|iiCnt ou those of \-onwv
inland iraters.
i l l principal f...vl Clinsists of BIBifclt f; ,j/,.
’ii’he sexes Ore alike in plvtntage, and d«' iwiwl'ii*..
pf tlh|iphitnage of a sooty-black tinged witjj i. ! .
}-;.-iij^^W«ach wing; hill black; ¡rides and