266 Dr, Bryant on the Birds 



Four eggs measured as follows : 71 x 43 J mill. — '75 Jx 49 — 83 J 

 X 47^—80^ X 49. 



Uria grylle^ Linn. Breeding everywhere in abundance. One 

 specimen had the posterior edges of the upper mandible and the 

 lower edges of the rami of the under mandible deep red. I never 

 found more than two eggs laid by the same bird, On July 3rd, 

 on a small island where there was no appearance of the birds hav- 

 ing been disturbed, the greater number had but just commenced 

 incubating, and none of the eggs were hatched. 



Four eggs measured : 5*7 x 36 mill. — 55 x 38 — 51 x 37 — 

 58 X 39. 



Uria troille^ Linn. The most common bird on the Labrador 

 coast, — breeding at various points, from the southern extremity of 

 Nova Scotia to the entrance to Hudson's Bay. From the number 

 in which they asssmble at their chosen breeding-places, the eggers 

 and fishermen are enabled to collect their eggs with great ease ; 

 the extent to which these birds are persecuted may be imagined 

 from the fact that, though on the 23rd of June young birds were 

 common at Gannet Rock, where they are but little if at all dis- 

 turbed, up to July 20th I saw but one young bird on the Labra- 

 dor coast. At the Murre Rock, so famous at the time of Audu- 

 bon's visit for the number of Guillemots breeding there, on the 

 2nd of July not more than a hundred eggs could be collected, and 

 apparently not over a thousand birds were breeding on it, proba- 

 bly not a hundreth part of their former numbers. On account 

 of the violence of the sea, I was unfortunatety unable to visit the 

 Foxes, as they are called, a short distance north of the Murre 

 Rocks, and at present said to be their favourite breeding-place. 

 Naumann in his description of the eggs of this bird states that he 

 has never seen an unspotted specimen. I have several in my 

 possession, and it would be strange if in a bird, whose eggs are so 

 extremely varied in their coloration, they should not occasionally 

 be found of a uniform color. 



Four eggs measured as follows: 84 x 47 mill. — 47 x 51 — 84 

 X 51—78 x 45. 



Uria ringvia, Briinn. As this bird was unfortunately con- 

 founded by Audubon with the preceding species, it is at present 

 impossible to ascertain what were its limits or numbers at the 

 time of his visit. There can be little doubt, however, that it was 

 not at all rare on the Labrador shore. None were seen by me 

 at any place, except Gannet Rock, though I think it must breed at 



