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indeed it is considered rare as compared with the ordinary 

 form ; I have generally seen one or two amongst the thousands 

 of the common kind in my visits to Bempton, and in June 1906 

 I procured five eggs, all of which were of the commonest green 

 or light ground, spotted and streaked with black. At various 

 places on the coast the Ringed variety of the Guillemot 

 has been recorded from time to time, and in the Cleveland area 

 I have met with it repeatedly. In January 1887, I saw one 

 Common and three of the Ringed form swimming together 

 inside the rocks off Redcar. Mr. J. H. Gurney possesses 

 a very small example, obtained at Bridlington on loth March 

 i86g. 



The local names are : — Skout or Scout, pronounced Scoot, 

 which has been in use from time immemorial in the Flam- 

 borough and Bempton districts ; Foolish Guillemot was a 

 term used in the Allan MS. (1791) ; Wullock is the Redcar 

 name ; at Whitby it is called Noddy, and Murre is another 

 Yorkshire name ; the nestling is called Kell-bird or Willock, 

 derived from its cry, abbreviated to Wilk at Flamborough. 

 This latter name was rendered by Dr. Richardson (1724) as 

 Whillock. The Ringed variety is Silver-eyed, or Ring-eyed, 

 Scoot. 



BRUNNICH'S GUILLEMOT. 



Uria bruennichi {E. Sabine). 



Accidental winter visitant from the Arctic regions. 



Although for some years included in the British list, 

 this northern Guillemot, which is a rare visitant to these 

 Islands, had not been chronicled from Yorkshire,* until the 

 winter of 1894, when the memorable incursion of Little 

 Auks and other northern sea-fowl took place. On 7th 

 December in that year a Guillemot, obtained in the North 



* I am aware that one or two examples had been previously obtained 

 at Bridlington, one of which occurred in December 1893. 



