Subfamily 'f^'Mi^kRIN^. 



Genus CEPPHUS Pallas. 



9. CEPPHUS GRYLLE (Linn,). 27. 



Black Guillemot. 



Adult male: — In full plumage, black, shaded with dull green; a white 

 patch on the wings. In all other stages, a marbled mixture of black and 

 white. Length 13 inches. 



Hab. Coasts of Northern Europe, south to Denmark and British Islands. 

 Coast of Maine, south in winter to Philadelphia ; Newfoundland (?) 



Eggs laid on the rocks near the sea, 3 in number, sea-green blotched with 

 brown. 



There is an old record of an individual of this and the suc- 

 ceeding species being found in the Bay in a state of extreme 

 exhaustion about twenty-five years ago. I did not see the birds 

 but enquired into the circumstance at the time and considered 

 the report correct. As none of this family have been observed 

 since that time, these two can only be regarded as waifs carried 

 away against their wishes by the force of the wind. 



Subfamily ALCIN^. 

 Genus URIA Brisson. 

 10. URIA LOMVIA (Linn.). 3L 

 Brunnich's Murre. 



Adult male : — Head and neck brown, upper-parts, greyish-brown, secon- 

 daries tipped wi+h white, lower-parts white from the throat downwards. 

 Length 17 inches. 



Hab. Coasts and islands of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans ; 

 south on the Atlantic coast of North America to New Jersey, breeding from 

 the Gulf of St. Lawrence northward. 



Eggs on the cliffs near the sea — pale green. 



Found on the Bay under circumstances similar to the pre- 

 ceeding. 



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