Plate CCXVIII. Male and Female.
Bill rather stout, black; feet black; general colour of upper parts
greyish-black, sides of the head and throat tinged with brown; lower
fore neck, breast, abdomen, edges of wings, and tips of secondaries
white; sides streaked with greyish-black; a line of white encircling
the eye, and extending upwards of an inch behind it, but in some
individuals wanting. In winter, the sides of the head and neck, the
fore part of the latter, with the lower parts, white.
_Male_, 17-1/2, 30.
More or less abundant during winter on the coast of Massachusetts and
Maine, rarely as far south as New York. Breeds in vast multitudes on
the Rocky Islands of the Gulf of St Lawrence, Newfoundland, and
Labrador. Occasionally found in Hudson's Bay.
Uria Troile, Bonap. Syn. p. 424.
Uria Troile, Foolish Guillemot, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer.
v. ii. p. 477.
Foolish Guillemot or Murre, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 526.
Foolish Guillemot, Uria Troile, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p.
142.