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BRUNNICH'S GUILLEMOT. 



THICK-BILLED GUILLEMOT. LAEGE-BILLED GUILLEMOT. 



Uria Brunnichiif Flemixg. Jenyn8. 



*' " Gould. Temminck. 



Uria — ? Brunnicliii — Of Brunnich. 



The present species was first distinguished as a distinct 

 one by Brunnich, 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. Eoss, R.N. 



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. 



Male; 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 tha^ can be attached to its 



