336 G U I L L E M O T .
Wm
Place.
flefh-colour : head and body white as fnow: back, wings, and
bafe of the tail, pale grey : the reft of its length white : lhape
fomewhat pointed : quills whitilh, down the lhafts inclining to
brown; the outer one the longeft: all the fecondaries nearly of
equal length: legs dulky flelh-colour j naked far above the knees:
claws dulky.
This Pallas mentions as a nondefcript •, and was met with by
him on the coaft of Holland, call: alhore between the villages.of
Catwick and Scheveningen, in the winter 1760.
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MARBLED G_
Pl . XCVI.
D escription.
Place.
Marbled Guillemot, Arft. Zool. N° 438. pl. 22.
Lev. Mu/,
H IS is larger than the little Auk: and is ten inches in length.
The bill compreffed a little on the lides, rather (lender, and
one inch in length : crown of the head dufky upper part of the
body tranfverfely barred with tawny, chefnut, and blackifh brown,
as far as the tail, which is Ihort and black : the wing coverts
dulky, fome of the larger edged with white : quills black : the
chin and throat are dulky, mixed with irregular blotches of white :
fides of the neck plain dulky : breaft, belly, and vent, irregularly
barred and undulated with duiky and white, changing to the laft
at the vent: legs and toes of a pale orange': webs and claws,
black.
Male and female much alike.
The above inhabits Prince William’s Sound, on the weftern
coaft of America ■, from whence the pair in the Leverian Mufeum
was brought. One in the pofleffion of Sir fojefh Banks was found
at Kamtfchatkc.
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