Plate CCXIX. Adult in summer and winter, and Young.
Bill shorter than the head, rather slender, black; feet vermilion,
tinged with carmine; general colour of plumage deep black, on the
upper parts tinged with green, on the lower with brown; a patch on
each wing, including the secondary coverts and some of the small
feathers white, of which colour also are the axillars and lower
wing-coverts. In winter the general colour of the plumage white; the
sides of the head, the neck all round, the lower parts, and the rump
being of that colour, more or less shaded with grey; upper part of
head obscurely mottled with greyish-black; back and scapulars black,
each feather tipped with greyish-white, those of the latter more
broadly; wings and tails brownish-black, the former with a conspicuous
white patch as in summer. Young at first covered with soft, thick,
brownish-black down.
_Adult_, 13-7/8, 21-1/2.
Accidental as far south, on the eastern coast, as New York; not rare
from thence eastward, during winter. Breeds from the Bay of Fundy
along all the rocky shores, to Labrador, and the highest latitudes,
where considerable numbers even spend the winter.
Uria Grylle, Bonap. Syn. p. 423.
Uria Grylle, Black Guillemot, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 523.
Black Guillemot, Uria Grylle, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 148;
v. v. p. 627.