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BRUNNICH’S GUILLEMOT. 
THICK-BILLED GUILLEMOT. LARGE-BILLED GUILLEMOT. 
Oria Brunnichit, FLEMING. JENYNS. 
$ “ GouLp. TEMMINCK. 
Oriaa—.secoccsceee ? Brunnichti—Of Brunnich. 
Tue present species was first distinguished as a distinct 
one by JBrunnich, and subsequently named after that 
naturalist by Colonel Sabine. 
In Europe these birds breed in vast numbers in Iceland, 
and are also met with at the same time in the Ferroe 
Islands, Spitzbergen, Norway, and Sweden, and _ thence 
northwards throughout the Arctic regions. In Italy one 
was shot at Naples. 
In America it occurs in and about Greenland, Baffin’s 
Bay, Davis’ Straits, and other parts of the northern coast. 
In Scotland, several have occurred in different places. 
In Ireland, Colonel Sabine noticed it on the coast of the 
county of Kerry. 
In Orkney, one was shot several years ago, and a specimen 
was also seen off Unst, one of the Shetland Islands, by 
Captain Sir James C. Ross, RN. ; 
The eggs of this species are, like those of the common 
kind, most variable in colour. The ground tint is greenish 
blue. They are, Mr. Hewitson observes, less fantastically 
streaked and blotted than those of the other, but sometimes 
very regularly and beautifully marked all over with small 
spots. 
alos bill, black, the base of the upper mandible nearly 
white. It is somewhat thicker than in the other closely allied 
species, but ‘il poco piu’ is all that can be attached to its 
