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before, in Alderney, but nowhere else ; and they are 

 by no means so numerous as the Guillemot. It is 

 resident throughout the year, though perhaps more 

 common in the autumn than at any other time. 

 Mr. Harvey Brown,* however, mentions seeing a 

 small flock swim by with the tide, at the north-end 

 of Herm, in January. Mr. MacCulloch writes me 

 word he has a note of a Eazorbill Auk shot in 

 Guernsey on the 14th February, 1847 ; this, of 

 course, is only a young Razorbill of the previous 

 year, Avhich had not at that time fully developed 

 its bill. 



The Razorbill is included in Professor Ansted's 

 list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey. 

 There are two Razorbills in the Museum, one in 

 summer nnd one in winter plumage. 



160. Cormorant. Phalacrocorax carho, Linnaeus. 

 French, " Grand cormoran." — The Cormorant is 

 by no means common in the Islands ; I have never 

 seen it about Guernsey, though I have seen one or 

 two near Herm ; I do not know that it breeds any- 

 where in the Islands, except at Burhou, and there 

 only one or two pairs breed. I was shown the 

 nesting-place just at the opening of a small sort of 

 cavern ; there was, however, only the remains of 

 one egg that had been hatched, and probably the 

 young gone off with its parents. I, however, 



^ 'Zoologist 'for 1869. 



