. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . ng distance underwater with great rapidity, using their wings as well as feet, andcoming to the surface far beyond gunshot range. The Sea Pigeons are met usually in small flocks of half adozen or more, and generally feed in the open sea at the base ofbold cliffs. When on the wing they proceed rapidly and in astraight line, and rarely more than a few feet from the surfaceof the water. On approching their nesting-site they rise ratherabruptly, and fly directly to their nests. Note.— Mandts Guille
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . ng distance underwater with great rapidity, using their wings as well as feet, andcoming to the surface far beyond gunshot range. The Sea Pigeons are met usually in small flocks of half adozen or more, and generally feed in the open sea at the base ofbold cliffs. When on the wing they proceed rapidly and in astraight line, and rarely more than a few feet from the surfaceof the water. On approching their nesting-site they rise ratherabruptly, and fly directly to their nests. Note.— Mandts Guillemot (C mandtii) is a northern varietyof the Sea Pigeon, differing from i;;rvlle in lacking the black baron the wing-patch, and having a somewhat stouter bill. It breedsfrom high Arctic regions to the coast of Labrador and Hudson Bay,and in winter may be found off the Atlantic shores from southGreenland to New Jersey, though it is not at all common alongthe southern portion of its range. The Black-winged Guillemot (C. inotzfcldi) is said to occuron the shores of Cumberland Bav and in .^^^ :rSm!^^ji^J MURRE. FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. COMMON GUILLEMOT. TROILE. Upper parts rich velvet brown, variable in tint; under partswhite; wings with a small white patch ; bill long and slender and ofblack color; legs blackish, webs olive. Length about i8 inches (femalerather smaller). In winter the chin, throat, and sides of neck becomewhite, more or less mottled with black. A^est On a ledge of an ocean cliff; no attempt is made to constructa receptacle for the egg, — it is laid upon the bare rock. E^o^!^. I ; variable in color, the prevailing tints being ivory white, yel-lowish green, dark green, pale blue, and reddish brown, with numerousintermediate tints ; markings irregular, and of browns and grays in vari-ous shades ; size variable, average about X The Foolish Guillemot, so called for its fatuity in thebreeding-season, in allowing itself sometimes t
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