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RINGED GUILLEMOT. 
BRIDLED GUILLEMOT. 
ria lachrymans, GouLp. TEMMINCK, 
Cpe: leveonsy> 2 Lachrymans—Weeping. 
Turs Guillemot derives its name, or, to speak more 
accurately, its names, English and Latin, from the narrow 
white streak drawn backwards and downwards from the eye, 
giving a fancied resemblance, as imagined by some, to a 
bridle, and by others to the trickling down of a tear. 
This is the only ostensible mark of difference between it and 
the Common Guillemot, from whieh it was first, as it 
appears, distinguished by Choris, and of which it has been 
considered by others only as a variety, the two species, or 
supposed species, being often found consorting together. 
In Europe they breed on Grimsey, an island north of 
Iceland; and they also occur on the coasts of Scandinavia. 
The present species appears to be more common on the 
Welsh coast than elsewhere in this country. In the county 
‘of Norfolk one was shot at Yarmouth, on the 9th. of 
October, 1847. They occur in small numbers on the York- 
shire coast. Two were killed by Mr. William Felkin, Junior, 
of Carrington, near Nottingham, as he has informed me, at 
Flamborough Head, near Bridlington. Also in the county 
of Durham. Im Sussex one was found dead in Seaford Bay, 
in December, 1852. 
A Bridled Guillemot was shot in Plymouth Sound, by 
John Gatecombe, Esq., of Wyndham Place, Plymouth, in the 
winter; and another was obtained in Plymouth Sound in the 
latter end of the summer. In Hampshire, one at Sepe, in 
the parish of Fawley, near Southampton, of which the Rev. 
R. E. Harrisson has written me word. 
