t.Tiis species in its summer-plumage. The beak is black, its
shape has been referred to, the posterior half -of the marginal
portion of the upper mandible nearly whiter extending from
the comer of the mouth to thé point where the feathers project
on the b ill; the irides;dark ; head, throat,1 heck behind,
back, wings* and tailfsooty black; secondaries tipped with
white; belly, and all beneath pure white, running up to a
point on the front of the' neck; in the Common Guillemot
-the white colour ends here in the form of a rounded?'arch;
legs, toes, and their membranes brownish-black. The whole
length eighteen -inches. From the wrist to the end o f the
longest quübfeather eight inches and a quarter. " The sexes'
are alike in plumage.
This species undergoesthe same changes of .plumage from
season as the IT. troile. Colonel Sabine remarks that ^specimens
killed early in June had the throat and neck white,
unmixed with black; towards the end of June the change
was in progress, and by the second week in J f |y , as many
were found in perfect summer-plumage, with, black throats
and necks, as were still in change. T emm in cl' says the
young assume, in March, their first summer-pfumage.-v Adult
birdgjose their black throat at the autumn moult.
NAT AT ORES. ALCADffl.
T H E R IN G ED GUILLEMOT,
or the BhibfED ^Guillemot. 1
Uria lacrymans, IBnils of Europe., pt; yym
p,* ‘ uw Temm. Man. d'Oraith. vel. iv; p.577.
o .^ ;th is ^ ^ fp ^ fe ^M r..G o u ld , observes,.in his Birds of
Europe above-quoted, “ although we have figured this bird
under the name Of lacrymans, we are doubtful of its specific
yalue, bearing^pit doesiapfclosej a resemblance to the common
troile, and -from which it differs only in
theywhife$|mark which encircles the eyes, and passes down
the -sides of>the head. I t inhabits the same localities, and is
often found in-company with the common species, and that
too on various «parts of óur eóast, particularly those of Wales,
where, we have been informed both kinds are equally numerous.
I t was first described as distinct by Choris, who, states
that it | J | abundant at Spitzbergen, and the neighbouring
seas. By M. Temminck and the French naturalists the two
birds are considered to be distinct, and as such we have
figured them.v