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BRUNNICffS GUILLEMOT, 

 The Thick-billed Guillemot. 



f7»-ja Brunnicliii, Brunnich^s Guillemot, Flem. Brit. An. p. 134. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 258. 



„ ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xxii. 



,, ,, Guillemot ci gros bee, Temm. JMan. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 924. 



This species was first described by Brunnich, in liis Orni- 

 ihologia Borealis, page 27, species 109, under the name of 

 Uria Troile, the author having previously called our com- 

 mon Guillemot Una Lomvia. An alteration of the specific 

 term being thus rendered necessary, Colonel Sabine very 

 properly devoted this Guillemot to the memory of Brunnich 



