. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. Head of Murre Head of Brunnich's Murre Both | natural size. Uria trollle troille (Linnaeus). Murre. Other names: common murre; foolish guillemot. Description. — Bill long and rather slender; tail of 12 feathers. Adults in breeding plumage (sexes alike): Head and neck rich, dark brown (sometimes olive-brown), in some cases a little grayer on crown; other upper plumage dark sooty-brown; most feathers of back and rump with slightly lighter edges; secondaries narrowly but sharply tipped white; sides and flanks mainly white, strea
. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. Head of Murre Head of Brunnich's Murre Both | natural size. Uria trollle troille (Linnaeus). Murre. Other names: common murre; foolish guillemot. Description. — Bill long and rather slender; tail of 12 feathers. Adults in breeding plumage (sexes alike): Head and neck rich, dark brown (sometimes olive-brown), in some cases a little grayer on crown; other upper plumage dark sooty-brown; most feathers of back and rump with slightly lighter edges; secondaries narrowly but sharply tipped white; sides and flanks mainly white, streaked lightly or heavily dusky-brown; below from throat or lower fore neck pure white; lining of wings white, varied with dusky-brown; bill black; inside of mouth yellow; iris dark brown; feet dark or blackish; some individuals have narrow white ring around eye with white line extending back from it above ear region (this variation is responsible for the form ringvia, recognized as a species by Ridgway). Adults in winter plumage: Similar, but white of under plumage extends to bill, up sides of head to mouth, and up sides of neck, leaving only narrow band of dark brown on back of neck; also a white stripe extends upward and forward from white of neck on either side of upper hind head, separated from white of throat by a dark stripe running back from eye; bill and feet lighter or more brownish than in breeding plumage. Young in first winter plumage: Smaller; very similar, but with less white (or no white) on sides of head and slight mottling or washing of dusky on throat and fore neck; bill smaller and "like the feet in part light ; Downy young: Grayish-brown above, almost black on head and neck which are variegated with long, whitish or buffy filaments; throat often mottled white; below whitish. i Selous, Edmund: The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, 1905, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally en
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