Plate CCCXLV. Male.
Bill stout, black; feet dusky, tinged with red; general colour of
plumage greyish-black on the upper parts; sides of the head and throat
tinged with brown; lower fore part of neck, the breast, abdomen, edges
of wings and tips of secondaries white; sides streaked with
greyish-black. In winter the sides of the head and neck, the fore part
of the latter, with the rest of the lower parts white, the sides
streaked with greyish-black, and a line of the same behind the eye.
_Male_, 18-1/2, 30.
Occasionally procured in Maine. Not very rare off the coast of Nova
Scotia. Breeds from Hudson's Bay to the Arctic Seas.
Uria Brunnichii, Bonap. Syn. p. 424.
Uria Brunnichii, Brunnich's Guillemot, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor.
Amer. v. ii. p. 477.
Large-billed Guillemot, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 529.
Large-billed Guillemot, Uria Brunnichii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
iii. p. 336.