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Identifier: birdsEuropeVGoul (find matches)
Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
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ut and abbreviated form of the bill, and by the much shorter space between the nasal orificesand the tip. We are only able to give a figure of it in its supposed summer plumage, which resemblesthat of the Common Guillemot, with this exception, that the dark parts are deeper and much more in-tense in colour, verging indeed towards sooty black. Although we have no authentic account of its havingbeen captured in the British Islands, we feel convinced that it must occasionally occur along our northernshores. It is very abundant in Greenland, Spitzbergen, Daviss Straits, and Baffins Bay; it doubtless alsotenants the rugged shores of Norway, Lapland, &c.; and its habits in all probability closely resemble thoseof its congeners. Crown of the head and all the upper surface glossy brownish black ; sides of the face and front of the neckdark sooty black; tips of the secondaries and all the under surface white; bill black ; gape bright yellow;feet greenish. Our figure is of the natural size.
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DraxmjrmfvJ/khM&on. S&mt-tyJ&i:- 6. BLACK. (&ITI1LL. EIUna gryUe; fl,alh:) BLACK GUILLEMOT. Uria Grylle, Lath. Le Guillemot a miroir blanc. The northern parts of Scotland and the Orkney and Shetland Islands form a place of general rendezvous forthe Black Guillemot, which being less migratory in its habits than its near ally the Foolish Guillemot (UriaTroile, Lath.) seldom quits these isolated groups, whose bays afford it shelter during the stormy season ofwinter, and whose abrupt and precipitous cliffs are equally inviting as a site for incubation. On the ledges ofthese rocks it deposits its single white egg spotted with black: the young are hatched in about three weeks,and shortly after are conveyed, but by what means is unknown, to the water, an element to which they are soexpressly adapted that they are enabled to swim and dive with the utmost facility the moment they arrive onits surface, and to brave with impunity the rough seas which are so prevalent in northern

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