170 THE BIRDS OF DEVONSHIRE. 



coast. In 1860, an adult bird was shot in June on 

 the Kingbridge estuary, and taken to Mr. Nicholls 

 (Zool. 1860. p. 7106). 



Order PYGOPODES. 



Family Alcid^. 

 RAZORBILL.— yl/m torda, Linn. 

 A RESIDENT species, nesting at Lundy Isle, and on 

 the North Coast of Devon. It may possibly breed 

 occasionally on our South Coast, for Baron A. von 

 Hiigel records that " a Razorbill, still in the downy 

 plumage, was shot in Torbay on the 7th of July : 

 this fact would seem to prove Torbay, or rather the 

 cli:ffs, to be a breeding place of this bird " (Zool. 

 1869, p. 1846). Gatcombe comments on the numbers 

 of Razorbills and Guillemots which perish on the 

 South Devon Coast during protracted gales. 



GUILLEMOT.— f7^nV< troile (Linn). 



A RESIDENT species. There is a large colony on 

 Lundy Isle, and Mr. Rawson states that Guillemots 

 breed up the North Coast of Devon towards 

 Lynmouth and on Baggy Point. Specimens of the 

 Ringed variety occur on the South Coast, e.g. a 

 bird shot on Slapton Sands in 1 852 ; An adult shot in 

 Torbay, October, 1869; Another shot near Plymouth, 

 March, 1870 ; And a fourth obtained in January, 



