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watched the one pairing with the other, and have 

 seen a Ringed Guillemot feeding a young one which 

 a Common Guillemot had under her wing." Mr. 

 Harvie-Brown has witnessed a similar thing ("Fauna 

 of the Outer Hebrides," pp. 160-161). See also 

 Gray, "Birds of the West of Scotland," p. 424. 



In his recently published volume, "Eastward 

 from Petsora," Mr. H. J. Pearson reproduces a 

 photograph of a group of Briinnich's Guillemot in 

 one of its breeding haunts, a species which, from its 

 rarity in this country, will be found included in the 

 second part of this Handbook. 



BLACK GUILLEMOT. Uria grylle (Linnaeus). Length, 

 13 in. ; bill, 1*4 in. ; wing, 6*5 in. ; tarsus, 1"25 in. 



Resident in the Hebrides, Orkney, and Shetland 

 (where the local name is Tystie), on some parts 

 of the Scottish coast, and in Ireland. In 1886 

 Mr. Ussher found it breeding and obtained the 

 eggs on the coast of Waterford {ZooL, 1886, p. 

 370). It is occasionally found upon the Welsh 

 cliffs, and used formerly to breed on the coast of 

 Pembrokeshire as well as in Anglesey ; but it is 

 believed that none now breed south of the Isle 

 of Man (Mathew, " Birds of Pembrokeshire," p. 

 122). One was washed ashore on the coast of 

 Merionethshire, near Towyn, on Nov. 11, 1894, 

 after rough weather (ZooL, 1895, p. 22). On the 

 east and south coasts of England it is now of 

 rare occurrence, though formerly a few pairs used 

 to breed at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, whence I 



