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THE BLACK GUILLEMOT. 



date a Mr. Pratt, son of a lawyer in Berwick, shot two 

 ' Turtle Doves ' ^ at St. Abb's Head, and there have not been 

 any seen there since." 



The Black Guillemot is now seldom seen off the coast 

 of Berwickshire. Mr. Gray, writing in 1883, says : " A few 

 pairs still linger in the vicinity of the Isle of May, in the 

 Firth of Forth, where an occasional nest may yet be taken." ^ 

 It is much smaller than the Common Guillemot, which it 

 resembles in its habits, being about the size of a Puffin. In 

 summer the plumage is wholly black, with the exception of 

 a white patch on the wing, and in winter it is more or less 

 mottled with white. 



1 Black Guillemots. 



2 Hist. Ber. Nat. aub, vol. x. p. 199. 







