RINGED GUILLEMOT. 



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NAT AT ORES. 



ALCADM. 



THE RINGED GUILLEMOT, 

 OR THE Bridled Guillemot. 



Uria lacrymans. Bridled Guillemot, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xxii. 

 ,, ,, Guillemot brid^, Temm. Man, d'Ornith. vol. iv. p. 577. 



Of this Guillemot Mr. Gould observes, in his Birds of 

 Europe above-quoted, " although we have figured this bird 

 under the name of lacrymans, we are doubtful of its specific 

 value, bearing as it does so close a resemblance to the com- 

 mon species, Uria troile, and from which it differs only in 

 the white mark which encircles the eyes, and passes down 

 the sides of the head. It inhabits the same localities, and is 

 often found in company with the common species, and that 

 too on various parts of our coast, particularly those of Wales, 

 where, we have been informed both kinds are equally numer- 

 ous. It was first described as distinct by Choris, who states 

 that it is abundant at Spitzbergen, and the neighbouring 

 seas. By M. Temminck and the French naturalists the two 

 birds are considered to be distinct, and as such we have 

 fio-urcd them." 



