122 The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 
1802, says: ‘‘ We have seen it rarely on the coast of Wales near 
Tenbeigh (séc), where a few breed annually; but nowhere else 
that we could find from thence to St. David’s.” None now 
breed south of the Isle of Man, and the bird has deserted 
Anglesea, and the neighbourhood of Llandudno, in North 
Wales, where it was reported to occur by Pennant, equally with 
our coasts. There is no specimen of a Pembrokeshire Black 
Guillemot now existing that we know of in any collection; nor 
is the bird, in virtue of a chance straggler floated to our shores, 
at the present day included in any list of the birds of the county. 
The Black Guillemot is very abundant off the north-west of 
Scotland, and is a species that does not wander far from its 
habitat ; specimens reported from the Bristol or English Chan- 
nels are few and far between. ] 
LITTLE AUK, Mergulus alle.—An occasional winter visitor. The 
Little Auk is the smallest in size of the cliff birds, and does 
not belong to our coasts, to which it is only a visitor in the 
winter, in very limited numbers, from Polar Seas, where it 
resides in immense multitudes. It is not unfrequently picked 
up dead upon the shore, or at some distance inland, after 
rough weather. Sir Hugh Owen shot a Little Auk in Goodwick 
Bay in 1880, where he has often seen it, and describes it as 
having a very musical loud whistle, and as being always tame. 
He has also seen it and heard its whistling note in early autumn. 
It is included by Mr. Mathias in his list. 
PUFFIN, /vatercula arctica.—Resident. This is the last of the 
Pembrokeshire birds that is left to us to describe, and, in the 
summer time, is by far the most numerous on the whole list ; 
we do not believe that we should exaggerate were we to say that 
the Puffins, in number, are then equal to all the other birds in 
the county added together! They occur on almost every 
station that is visited by the other cliff birds, wherever there are 
facilities for making their burrows, but like some other species, 
have their favourite quarters, being found on Ramsey only on 
