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BRUNNICH'S GUILLEMOT. 

 Uria bruexxichi, E. Sabine. 



This species may be distinguished from the preceding by its larger 

 size, as well as by its stouter and deeper bill— for which reason it 

 has been called the Thick-billed Guillemot ; it is also blacker in 

 plumage on the upper parts. It has been included in the 13ritish 

 list upon somewhat slight evidence, for no competent observers have 

 met with it on the coasts of Ireland, the Shetlands, the St. Kilda 

 group, or in other places where it is said to have occurred. There 

 is, however, a probability that a specimen found by Macgillivray 

 among some skins belonging to the late Mr. Wilson, janitor to the 

 University of Edinburgh, was sent from the Orkneys ; and also 

 that an example was obtained off the mouth of the Orwell in Suffolk ; 

 while it is not unlikely that this species should wander to British 

 waters, seeing that Mr. E. Hargitt's collection contains a bird which 

 was undoubtedly killed near Havre in France. 



Briinnich's Guillemot is a straggler to the coasts of the North Sea 

 during winter, and sometimes visits the higher latitudes of Norway 

 in considerable numbers ; but it has not yet been recognized in the 



