PYGOPODES. ( 303 ) ALCIDM. 



THE BLACK GUILLEMOT. 



GREENLAND DOVE, DOVEKY, SEA TURTLE, LITTLE GUILLEMOT, 

 SPOTTED GUILLEMOT, TYSTIE. 



Vria grylle. 

 %^z turtle SDolie* 



I gaze upon the stormy, troubled ocean, 



I hear her crested ivaves 

 Waking, as in they roll with restless motion, 

 The echoes of her caves. 



Like armid hosts, itnpatient for the battle, 



They swell with deafening roar ; 

 Then hurl their force, with thunder, crash and rattle. 



Upon the sounding shore. 



Walter Chisholm. 



On the 19th of June 1839 the Berwickshire Naturalists 

 Club met at Coldingham under the presidency of the Eev. 

 Thomas Knight, Vicar of Ford, who, in his address to the 

 members delivered at the anniversary meeting held at Mil- 

 field on the 18th of September of that year, records that 

 there was exhibited at the Coldingham meeting above men- 

 tioned " a living specimen of the Uria grylle or Black 

 Guillemot, which had been shot two days previously at 

 St. Abb's Head." ^ Although this species is not now found 

 breeding at St. Abb's Head, it appears from Mr. Hardy's 

 MS. Notes that in 1857 two or three pairs frequented the 

 rocky precipices there, and that it formerly nested at Tookey 

 and Horsecastle Coves, which are situated to the south of the 

 Head. He also mentions " that some time before the above 



1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. i. p. 182. 



