362 ALLA IMPENNIS. 



an individual taken, in 1834, ofl" the coast of Waterford, and 

 preserved in Dr. IJurkitt's collection. 



It does not appear to have been met with of late years 

 by any of our arctic voyagers, nor do any of the American 

 writers profess to have seen it. Mr. Audubon states that 

 Mr. Henry Havell, when on his passage from Ngav York to 

 England, hooked one on the banks of Newfoundland, and 

 hauled it on board, but after several days restored it to 

 fi-eedom. He was informed that it breeds on a low rocky 

 island to the south-east of Newfoundland, but had no oppor- 

 tunity of ascertaining the accuracy of the report. Various 

 authors state that the egg is about five inches long, and 

 nearly three in breadth ; pyriform, like that of the Common 

 Guillemot ; yellowish-white, with numerous irregular lines 

 and blotches of brownish -black. 



