. British birds in their haunts. Birds -- Great Britain. THE COMMON GUILLEMOT. URIA TROILE. Bill much compressed, longer than the head, grejish black; upper plumage brownish black; the secondaries tipped with white; a whitish patch behind the eye on each side;> under plumage white; feet dusky; iris broAvn. Length nearly eighteen inches. Eggs greenish or bluish, blotched and streaked with black. This is one of our common sea-birds during a great por- tion of the year, though little known to sea-side visitors, owing to its habit of keejDing well out to sea and ha\4ng notliing ostentatious in
. British birds in their haunts. Birds -- Great Britain. THE COMMON GUILLEMOT. URIA TROILE. Bill much compressed, longer than the head, grejish black; upper plumage brownish black; the secondaries tipped with white; a whitish patch behind the eye on each side;> under plumage white; feet dusky; iris broAvn. Length nearly eighteen inches. Eggs greenish or bluish, blotched and streaked with black. This is one of our common sea-birds during a great por- tion of the year, though little known to sea-side visitors, owing to its habit of keejDing well out to sea and ha\4ng notliing ostentatious in its habits. Yet, during a cruise in a yacht, on almost any part of the coast, a practised eye will often discover a few stragglers, distinguished among other sea-birds by their black and white colours, short. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874; Wolf; Wymper. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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