RINGED GUILLEMOT. 279 



The curious variety known as the Ringed Guillemot 

 has been procured on the coast of Norfolk several times. 

 The first example recorded was killed at Yarmouth on 

 the 9th October, 1847. Messrs. Gurney and Fisher, in 

 announcing it as " new to the Norfolk List," say (" Zo- 

 ologist," p. 1965), "It was noticed that the mark on 

 each cheek which forms the ' bridle ' is not merely a line, 

 but an indentation or groove in the feathers through- 

 out its length." One of these birds, in Mr. F. d'A. 

 Newcome's collection, was stuffed by the late Mr. E. C. 

 Newcome; there is, unfortunately, no date or locality 

 preserved, but a note in Mr. Stevenson's writing (who 

 probably had his information direct from the late Mr. 

 Newcome), states that it was taken at Felt well. Another, 

 in Mr. le Strange's collection, at Hunstanton Hall, 

 was killed in that neighbourhood ; and Mr. Stevenson 

 possessed one which was taken alive on the beach at 

 Cromer about the middle of May, 1863. Mr. Dowell also 

 has a ringed guillemot killed at Blakeney, in November, 

 1850. "Of these examples," says Mr. Stevenson, "all 

 but the last are in full summer plumage, with the white 

 ring round the eye, and the ' bridle ' on the cheek very 

 pure in colour and clearly defined." On the 31st of 

 January, 1872, Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., purchased two 

 of these birds in the Norwich Market, which he found 

 amongst old and yomig guillemots and razorbills sent 

 from Cromer, and said to have been shot some few miles 

 out at sea. Mr. J. G. Overend's Yarmouth collection 

 contained a ringed guillemot, killed prior to 1875. An 

 example was also shot at Yarmouth in the last week of 

 February, 1881 ; and a very immature specimen, the 

 beak of which was not fully grown, was killed at Cley, 

 in November, 1885. 



and dying birds were found in the Firth of Clyde and Belfast 

 Lough, Dublin Bay, and Waterford Harbour, and along the Wex- 

 ford shore, and many dead birds were found on the coast of North 

 Devon. 



