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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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stinct group of Penguins, the must characteristic divers of the class. One common on the precipitous coasts of all Britain, is the Common Guillemot(U. troiie), of a dusky slate-colour above, white beneath, and a bar of the same onthe wing, formed by the tips of the secondaries; the throat black in summer,white in win*er. It lays only one egg, of enormous proportional magnitude, antThe young at first resemble the adults in summer dress; but their first plumage,the texture of wliich is singularly delicate, presents the colouring of the adult winter-garb, and is exchanged forthe latter in the course of a few weeks. They breed in vast numbers on the narrow ledges of rocks, where inmany places they are seen sitting in successive rows, one over another. In autumn they migrate southward,those which breed on the British shores being replaced by others from more northern latitudes. Another and smaller species, is the Black Guillemot (U. pn/lle), entirely black, with a great white wing-spot, in
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remarkably variable in colour,which succeeds the down, and 254 AVES. summer, and everywhere mottled with white in winter: the bill and feet red. Its range is more northerly, rarelyif ever breeding to the southward of the Scottish Isles, and producing two and often three eggs, proportionallysmaller, and singularly different from those of the other, both in shape and colour. It is less allied to the CommonGuillemot than the latter is to the Auks, with which an intermediate species, rarely found on the British coasts,tends even to connect it,—the U. Bnimichii, which scarcely differs except in the more robust form of the bill.There is also a breed of the Common Guillemot found on the Welsh coast, and some other places, which has anarrow white liue from the bill to the eye, as in the Razor-billed Auk.] The Rotche (Cephus, Cuv. \_Mergulus, Ray and Vieillot]),—Has a shorter bill, more arcuated above, and unemarginated; the symphysis of the lower mandibleextremely short. Its wings are str
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