270 Mr. Win. Eagle Clarke o?i the 



of this Black Guillemot, or Dovekie, in both adult and first 

 plumages. This bird bred, Mr. Bruce tells me, in some 

 numbers at Cape Flora, along with the still more numerous 

 Little Auk. 



According to Dr. Neale, a considerable number of Povekies 

 breed at the head of Gray Bay, and a good number at Cape 

 Stephen, at Bell Island, and at Cape Flora. The bird came 

 under Dr. Nansen's notice at the end of May 1895 on the 

 ice far to the north-east of Franz Josef Laud ; but he does 

 not again allude to it until the spring of 1896, when he 

 (p. 410) mentions its arrival on the 10th of March, and 

 alludes to its movements from the land to the sea at certain 

 times of the day in company with the Little Auk. Dr. Neale 

 states that the Black Guillemot departed from Cape Flora 

 during the first week of September 1881, and returned to 

 its old haunts on the 18th of February, 1882. 



[On the 22nd of October several Dovekies were seen, and 

 two of them shot by Mr. Armitage ; these were the last of 

 their kind seen in the autumn of 1896. On the 4th of 

 March, 1897, Mr. Wilton saw the first Dovekie of the season. 

 On the 17th the bird was seen in numbers at the Windy 

 Gully Rocks. 



The note of the Dovekie while flying is extremely delicate 

 and beautiful — a kind of soft chirping. It is very dis- 

 tinctive, and one could easily tell whether the birds were 

 about without seeing them. 



The Windy Gully Rocks form a breeding-place of the 

 Dovekies, and there they are dispersed among their more 

 numerous friends, the Rotges. This species was much less 

 abundant than the Loom. — W. S. B.] 



19. '^Uria bruennichi (E. Sabine). 



Uria arra Payer, op. cit. ii. p. 91. 



Alca arra Feilden, t. c. p. 209. 



Uria bruennichi Neale, P. Z. S. 1882, pp. 652, 653; Nansen, 

 op. cit. ii. p. 244. 



In the collection are three adults in summer plumage, 

 two obtained on the 13th of April, 1896, and one on the 



