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BRUNNICH'S GUILLEMOT. 

 Uria bruennichi, E. Sabine. 



This species may be distinguished from the preceding by its 

 larger size, as well as by its stouter and deeper bill, for which reason 

 it has been called the Thick-billed Guillemot ; it is also blacker in 

 plumage on the upper-parts. It was originally included in the 

 British list upon somewhat slight evidence, for no competent 

 observers had met with it on the coasts of Ireland, the Shetlands, 

 the St. Kilda group, or in other places where it was said to have 

 occurred ; though it seemed probable that a specimen from Caith- 

 ness was once in the Sinclair collection at Wick, and that a 

 specimen found by Macgillivray among some skins belonging to 

 the late Mr. Wilson, janitor to the University of Edinburgh, had 

 been sent from the Orkneys, while an example was said to have been 

 obtained off the mouth of the Orwell in Suffolk. But all doubt 

 was at an end when three identified specimens were obtained on 

 the Yorkshire coast, in December 1894 and January 1895, while 

 one was taken in Cambridgeshire on J^inuary 12th of the latter year. 



The late Mr. E. Harcfitt's collection contained a Briinnich's Guil- 



