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feathers: the head, neck, back, wings, and tail, deep rrtoufe-
colour: tips of the leffer quills white: under parts of the body
the fame: fides under the wings marked with dulky lines : juft
above the thighs are fome long feathers, that curl over them :
legs dulky.
Mr. Brunnich* mentions a variety, having a broader and
Ihorter bill, and the margins of it yellow, even in dried fpeci-
mens; and Muller f another, with a ring of white round the eyes,
and a line of the fame behind them.
This bird is fufficiently plenty on the Englijh coafts in the
fummer feafon, when it is found fometimes in aftonilhing numbers
on our rocky cliffs ; at which time our gunners frequently
go, in order to perfect themfelves in the art of fhooting flying; for
which purpofe none are more fit than thefe filly birds, as they will
fee their companions killed one after another, without doing
more than making a circuit, and alighting in the fame place, to
be Ihot at in turn. Along with theft are the Auks, and both
of them are indifcriminately called Willecks by the fportfmen.
They lay one large egg, more than three inches in length,
of a blueilh white, or pale fea-green, and fo irregularly fpotted
and ftreaked with black, that no two are alike. They are
faid to continue in the Orknies the whole yearj. The chief
places they are known to breed in are, the uninhabited ifle
of Priejlholm, near the ifle of Anglefey: on a rock called Godreve,
not far from St. Ives in Cornwall: the Farn IJles, near the coaft of
Northumberland: and the cliffs about Scarborough in Torkjhire §•
They are alio found in moft of the northern parts of Europe,
• Orn. N* 109. f Zed. Da». t Sr. Zee, $ Wiljgbly.
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to Spitßergen *, the coaft of Lapmark, and along the White and
Icy Sea, quite to Kamtfchatka. Is frequently met with on the
coafts of Italy in the winter -j-. It is alfo known in Newfoundland,
and in a few parts of the continent of North America, but has
not hitherto been talked of as common. Our laft voyagers met
with it on the coaft north of Nootka Sound J.
It is known by ftveral names ; by the Welch, Guillem: at
Northumberland and Durham, Guillemot, or Sea-hen: in Torkßire,
a Scout: by the Corniß, Kiddaw: and in the fouthern parts, Wil-
lock. In Kamtfchatka it is called Aru or Kara. The inhabitants
of the laft kill them in numbers for the fake of their flelh, though
it is certainly very tough and ill-tafted; but more efpecially for
their lkins, of which, as of other fowls, they make garments: the
eggs are alfo accounted a great delicacy §.
Ringuia, Brun, N° 110. i l l »— Scop, Ann. i. N° 103* 2.
Leffer Guillemot, Br. Zool. N° 235. pi. 83. fig. 1. +• LESSER G.
Lev. Mu/.
*Jp H I S is lefs than the fooliß Guillemot: its length fixteen Descrijtioh.
inches : breadth twenty-fix : weight nineteen ounces. Bill
two inches and a half, black: the top of the head, taking in the
eyes, the hind part of the neck, the back, wings, and tail, are
black; behind the eye continued in a ftreak on each fide : the
greater wing coverts tipped with white, forming a narrow band
on the wings : the fides of the head beneath the eye, and all the
under parts, white : legs black.
* Pbypps Voy. p. 187. f Arä. Zool. j, Cool's laß Vcy. vol. ii. p. 352.
$ Hiß. Kamtfch. p. 154.