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Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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pped with greyish white, the edge of the outer websof that colour for a third of their length; secondaries, partlytipped with white, the outer web of these also being markedin like manner as the others just described. In winter thewhite is spotted with brownish black. Tertiaries, greaterand lesser under wing coverts, tail, and upper and undertail coverts, brownish black; legs and toes, vermilion, or coralred, with a tinge of orange, the deepest colour in thesummer. The young are at first covered with dull greyish blackbrown. They next are mottled with black and white feathers. Sir William Jardine mentions one shot by him in themonth of January, which had the head and upper part ofthe neck clouded with brownish black, the whole of thechin, throat, and breast, white, except the sides of the last-named, which were clouded with brownish black. The backon the upper part, deep brownish black, on the lower partnearly white. The white in front of, and on the wings,clouded with brownish black.
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6:ii - ■w/,.,M ROTCHE. 157 ROTCHE. LITTLE AUK. ICE BIED. SMALL BLACK AND WHITE DIVEE.COMMOI^ EOTCHE. XJria minor, Brisson. Alca alle, Pennant. Montagu. Bewick. Uria alle, Temminck. Mergulus melanoleueos, Fleming. Selby. • Jenyns. Uria—A. bird supposed to be the Guillemot. Jfi^or—Lesser. These birds are of true oceanic habits, although, as willbe seen, they have in many numerous instances occurred farinland. They are abundant in Greenland, where they breed, and indifferent parts of North America, Baffins Bay, Davis Straits,and on other parts of the continent, on to New Jersey, andseveral parts of the United States; also in Europe, at Iceland,in the Island of Grimsey. So, too, in Nova Zembla andSpitzbergen. Captain Beechy, R.N., in the account of hisvoyage to the North Pole, writes thus of them, in describingthe scenery of Magdalen Bay, on the west of the island.—*At the head of the Bay there is a high pyramidal mountainof granite, termed Eodge Hill, from the myriads of birds,

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