316 URIA BRUNNICHII. 



land, and Feroo, as Avell as on the coasts of Norway. But 

 it docs not nii<j^iate so far southward as the Common Guille- 

 mot, and is of very rare occurrence in the British seas. It 

 was seen by Colonel Sabine, in July, on the coast of Kerry. 

 Captain Sir James C. Ross met with it at Unst, the most 

 northern of the Shetland Islands, as well as in several parts 

 of Scotland. The only British specimen I have seen I found 

 among some skins from Orkney, belonging to the late Mr. 

 Wilson, Janitor to tlie Edinburgh University, in the museum 

 of which it was soon after deposited. Mr. Audubon was 

 informed that it occurs in winter as far south as the Bay of 

 Boston, but did not meet with any there, or even in Labrador, 

 although he received a specimen from Eastport, in Maine. 

 On the other hand, it is represented as very plentiful in the 

 arctic seas in summer. My descriptions are taken from 

 specimens obtained there. Appended to one of them by the 

 donor, the snrgeon of a whaler, is the following note : — 

 " TJria Brunnichii (Loom). Coccygeal glands large ; two 

 large apparently sanguiferous oblong flat bodies, lying 

 obliquely from before backwards over the orbits. Food am- 

 })hiboda. Stomach lined with a hard horny substance, easily 

 separated from the fibrous coat. Egg rather pyramidal, S^ 

 inches long axis, 1^ to 1^^ short axis, of a green colour, with 

 black spots. Hatches in clefts of the rocks, from the 20th of 

 June to the 15tli of July. Iris of a dark brown colour; eye 

 not at all prominent, sunk deep into the orbit, and well 

 covered with the eyelids. Rather shy, never appearing to 

 come near the ships for the purpose of eating any offals of 

 the whale, &c. Swim in numbers from two to three up to 

 forty or fifty. They never fly high, but along the surface of 

 the ice or water." 



The habits of this species are represented as being in all 

 respects very similar to those of the Common Guillemot. 



Young. — We have no satisfactory accounts of the young, 

 or of their progress toward matinity. 



Adult in Win ikk. — An individual figured by Mr. Au- 

 dul)on is tlius described : — '' Bill black. Iris dark brown. 



