Plate CCCCII. Fig. 1. Adult. Fig. 2. Young.
Bill yellow, shorter than the head, rather stout, compressed toward
the end, the upper outline arched; feet yellow; head and upper part of
neck black, excepting a band of elongated linear feathers beginning
over the eye and extending down the hind part of the neck, and a broad
band of white commencing behind the ear and curving forwards, to join
the white, which is the general colour of the lower parts, with the
exception of the flanks, which are black; back, wings, and tail
greyish-black. Young, when fledged, with the bill black, the feet
dusky; the upper parts blackish-grey, each feather black in the
centre, the lower parts greyish-yellow, transversely barred with
dusky; the tail broadly tipped with white.
_Adult_, 10-1/2, wings, 5-9/12.
North-west coast of America. Abundant.
Alca antiqua, Gmel. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 551.
Black-throated Guillemot, Uria antiqua, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v.
p. 100.