BLACK GUILLEMOT. 95 



or sixty feet above its surface. The Black Guillemot 

 resorts annually to the same holes." 



The eggs are two in number, and of a white colour, 

 with a tinge of green, spotted, blotted, and speckled, 

 more or less with grey, reddish brown, and very dark 

 brown or blackish. Mr. Hewitson has known one of a 

 pink colour. 



Both parents attend to the young until able to fly 

 and dive, when they forage for themselves. 



