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different parts of the kingdom, which they vifit I 

 believe not regularly but accidentally. 



The zreat Auk or Pinguin fometimes breeds in Auks and 



& GUILLE- 



67. Kilda. The Auk, the Guillemot and Puffin in- mots. 

 habit mod of the maritime cliffs of Great Britain, 

 in amazing numbers, during fummer. The black 

 Guillemot breeds in the Bafs IJle, and in St. Kilda, 

 and fometimes in Llandidno rocks. We are at a 

 lofs for the breeding place of the other fpecies-, 

 neither can we be very certain of the winter refi- 

 dence of any of them, excepting of the lejfer Guil- 

 lemot and black-billed Auk, which, during winter* 

 vifit in vaft flocks the Frith of Forth. 



Thefe chiefly breed in the lakes of Sweden and Diver*. 

 Lapland, and fome in countries nearer the Pole * ; 

 but fome of the red throated Divers, the northern 

 and the imber, may breed in the north of Scotland 

 and its ifles. 



,1 am uncertain where the black toed Gull breeds. Gulls. 

 The Skua is confined to the Shetland Ifles, the Rock 

 Foula, and perhaps St. Kilda. The Arclic breeds 

 in the Orknies and in the Hebrides. The reft of the 

 tribe breed difperfedly on all the cliffs of Great 

 Britain. The black headed on our fens and lakes. 



* Faun. Suec. No. 150. Grant*. Greenl. I. 82. $3. 



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