British zoology . are found in amazing numbers onthe high cliffs on feveral of our coafts, and ap-pear at the fame time as the auk. They are veryfimple birds > for notwithfbanding they are fhot at, and fee their companions killed by them, theywill not quit the rock. Like the auk, they lay on-E q o. ly one egg, which is very large; fome are of 3fine pale blue, others white, fpotted, or moll: ele-gantly ftreaked with lines crofling each other inail directions. The Rev. Mr. Low of Birfa af-fures me, that they continue about the Orknies thewhole winter. 235. Lesser. Uria Svarbag. Ringuia. Brunn
British zoology . are found in amazing numbers onthe high cliffs on feveral of our coafts, and ap-pear at the fame time as the auk. They are veryfimple birds > for notwithfbanding they are fhot at, and fee their companions killed by them, theywill not quit the rock. Like the auk, they lay on-E q o. ly one egg, which is very large; fome are of 3fine pale blue, others white, fpotted, or moll: ele-gantly ftreaked with lines crofling each other inail directions. The Rev. Mr. Low of Birfa af-fures me, that they continue about the Orknies thewhole winter. 235. Lesser. Uria Svarbag. Ringuia. Brunnich, No. no. Ifiandis Stutnefur, Svartbakur. Scopoli, No. Zool. 138. Descrip. rip HE weight is nineteen ounces: the length fix--*• teen inches: the breadth twenty-fix. Thebill two inches and a half long, fhaped like theGuillemots, but weaker. The top of the head,the whole upper part of the body, wings and tailare of a darker color than the former : the cheeks, throat, jvp ms. LESSER SPOTTED GUILLEMOT ^V7 2S6.
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