272 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 



" Briinnich's Guillemot is included by Sir W. Milner in his 

 list of the Birds of Sutherland, published in the Zoologist; but 

 Mr. Henry Milner has kindly informed me that the bird was not 

 found breeding there, and only a single specimen was purchased 

 on that occasion." 



This has been requoted by Mr. Gray and Mr. Harting, 

 but I have turned to Sir William's list (Zool., 2014) and 

 cannot find any mention of it. I conclude, however, that in 

 some way confusion has arisen with his later records in the 

 same volume, (pp. 2059, 2061) in which he speaks of a 

 Briinnich's Guillemot and egg at Soa, a little island close 

 to St. Kilda. 



It has been "once met with" in Bdiiiffshire, Jide Mr. T. 

 Edward (Zool., 6971), and once in Caithness. 



In England I have no remarks to offer on one killed at 

 RosemuUion Head, in Cornwall, by Mr. G. Copeland (" Cor- 

 nish fauna," p. 39), except to say that Mr. Rodd in his 

 more recent catalogue takes no notice of it ; nor any to 

 make on a specimen obtained at Freshwater on the 7th of 

 February, i860, by Mr. Rogers, (Guide to the Isle of Wight, 



P- 434)- 



On the whole I do not believe in any of them, and I 

 think that unless further evidence is forthcoming, this 

 Guillemot might really be withdrawn from the British list. 



