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setsliire, Hampshire, and Sussex are few and far between ; 

 nor can it be considered more than a casual visitant, prin- 

 cipally in the spring, to the east and north-east coast. 

 Pennant states that in his time it was known to breed at 

 Llandudno and Anglesea, on the coast of Wales, and Mon- 

 tagu, writing in 1802, says that a few used to do so near 

 Tenby, but the late Thomas Dix does not so much as men- 

 tion the occurrence of this species in his ' Birds of Pem- 

 brokeshire,' in ' The Zoologist ' for 1869. Mr. Kermode 

 informs the Editor that it still breeds in small numbers in 

 the Isle of Man. St. Abb's Head, in Berwickshire, and the 

 Bass Rock have been enumerated as nesting-places, but Mr. 

 Harvie-Brown did not see it on his recent visit to the former, 

 nor did the Editor find it on the latter. A few have been 

 said to breed on the Isle of May, in the Firth of Forth, but 

 Mr. Agnew, the lighthouse-keeper, says that none have done 

 so for the past sixteen years ; nor is it certain that any 

 breed in Buchan and other counties on the east side of 

 Scotland, although there are undoubtedly some colonies in 

 Sutherland. Along the whole of the western coasts, includ- 

 ing both groups of islands, it is abundant ; and in the 

 Orkneys and the Shetlands the 'Tystie,' as it is called, is a 

 familiar and characteristic species. In Ireland it breeds on 

 Rathlin Island, and along the coasts of Antrim, Donegal, the 

 western side and islands, and at some places in the south ; 

 but Lambay Island, Howtli, and other points on the east 

 coast are now almost, if not entirely, abandoned by it. 



The Black Guillemot breeds in the Faeroes, Norway, 

 Denmark, and in many places in the Baltic and the Gulf of 

 Bothnia ; visiting the waters of North Germany, the Nether- 

 lands, and Northern France in winter. It is common in 

 Iceland ; on both coasts of Greenland ; in Cumberland 

 Basin, and in Baffin Bay ; the last observed by Major 

 Feilden on the northward voyage of H.M.S. * Alert,' being 

 on the 2nd of September, 1875, in lat. 82° 27' N. In 

 the waters of Spitsbergen, Franz-Josef Land, and Novaya 

 Zeml^'a, the place of our Black Guillemot appears to be 

 taken by a closely-allied species, Ui'ia mandti, which has a 



