the eye-very observable, but not-very pure in colour, being
mixed with a little black ; chin, tliroat, neck in . front, and
on the .side at the-Upper part, cheeks, and ear-coverts, white;
in other respects like the old bird in Summer.
A young bird abo'ut a week^idd,^obtained from the rocks
at the Isle of Mftght,- has " the beak smooth and black, no
white'Hfie-tb the »eye; buteile chin aUd^throat^aretw-Mtoiswith
a few greyish-black- hai-^-about ' the siniddie^of t'he^neck in
f r o n t t h e head and hind, neck- biackfjwfth a few white'hairs ;
body above’and the wings dull Sobty-black. •
• The.young-bird of thV yU a x aV p h d ^ a ^ n ly ^ ^ ^ rs from
the adult bird*inf winter;'in tK^ M fracter- of- the-beak, which
is smaller and has n%t then acquired titd'gruov^orr'lin^'so
conspicuous in the - old“ -^^u^hird -retains > its-
white throat - till- the “spring moult, when it iassiimgs d ie -black
throat peculiar to tlfe hieeding-season.
■n I t that^Cdlenel’ tMoiitagtt, wholWs
so good an^dbUerver, should^hapc^rcmhi.ht'd mKta’keif on th e
subjectLo&his’ ■Tiefser Guillemot andr^lhck-billedlAjife.-- -'Had
he obtained a young d ijfd -of th e Comnabn'-'G'uillombtlibri'Jthc
Razor-bill h,om-''tfo rockS’-on' our^Oastj^in^M^wn'd^kepf if
aliyfe ib --h i^ g a rd en 4 ilL ’t)hristm3S', ih e - r id d le lw ould ha^^be'eK
solved for h im .
THE^V.&REAT AUK.
A lea impe mh, The Aureal Aukt
Pingouin braqhwtère,
P ennj, Britj, Zool. yol. ii. p. 146.
M awÇiOr nith v D Lot..,
B’iWick, Brit.'Birds, vol. ii. p. 174.
F i .em. Brit. A n .f. 129.
(liifcBTj. Érit^prnith. vol. ii. p. 433. Jenyns, Brit. Veit.' p. 261.
'lëa&^iÿBirds of Europe, pt. xiii.
Temm. Jftan. d’Ornith. vol. ii. p. 939.
T he HiSSSt 'JffpK if #jveryr3re British Bird, and but few
instances are recorded1^ i t s capture. “ The natives in the
Orkneys-informed Mr. Bullock on his tour through these
vog. III. % B