ALCADZ. 547 
Family AucaD&, 
Of the Alcade or Auks I can include five out of 
the eight species usually considered as British: they 
are all rather accidental stragglers to our shores; 
one of them, the Little Auk, very much so, only 
making an occasional appearance in very bad 
weather; the other three species breed in con- 
siderable numbers at Lundy Island and other places 
at the mouth of the Bristol Channel, from whence 
they wander as far up channel as Porlock Bay and 
Minehead, off both which places I have seen them 
when I have been on a summer cruise. 
Common GuitLEmoT, Uria troile. The Common 
Guillemot is very common and resident throughout 
nearly the whole of the English coast, collecting at 
the various breeding stations in the summer, and 
spreading about in various parts of the sea in search 
of food as soon as the young are sufficiently ad- 
vanced to take care of themselves. When collected 
at the breeding stations they may be seen in 
thousands, some on the water engaged in fishing, 
and others standing in long rows on the rocks, 
lining every available ridge like detachments of 
skirmishers. The nearest large breeding stations 
to us are at Lundy Island and on the south coast of 
Wales, particularly about Tenby, at both of which 
places Puffins, Guillemots and Razorbills collect in 
