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GUILLEMOT. 



SKOUT. WILLOCK. SEA-HEN. FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. 



CoJymhus Troile, Latham. Stephens. 



" " Shaw. Fleming. 



Uria Troile, LmNAius. Gmelin. 



" minor, JStephens. 



Colymhus—K Diver. Troile—. 



Faielt launclied now on the waves of the mighty ocean, 

 a volume indeed of water, the land and the mtermediate 

 shore, which, though belonging to both belongs to neither, 

 taken leave of, yet still, as will be seen, I have not 'cast 

 off the painter,' and I hope that by means of this ultra- 

 marine telegraph, a clear understanding may still be kept 

 up by my readers, of the forms and features of the wild 

 birds of the wild waters, whose portraits in their turn I 

 now proceed to give. In other words, having completed, 

 in the preceding volumes, the History of the British Land 

 Birds, Waders, and others which pertain more or less to both 

 land and sea, I now enter upon that of those which may 

 the most strictly speaking be called sea-birds. Truly in 

 following them, though only with the eye of the mind, we 

 shall 'see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the 

 deep,' 



The present species is frequent in Greenland, and about 

 Hudson's Bay, in North America, from whence some indi- 

 viduals advance as far south as the United States. 



In Europe, they occasionally make their way from Nova 

 Zembla, the Ferroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, and Holland, 

 by the Straits of Gibraltar to Italy and Sicily; and in Africa, 

 in like manner, are found along tlie northern shores. In a 

 few instances the species is recorded to have occurred on the 

 lakes of Switzerland. 



