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BLACK GUILLEMOT. 



OOMJvION SCRAEEli. TTSTE. SPOTTED GUILLEMOT. 

 GREENLAND DOVE. 



Uria gryllcf Pknnant. Montagu. 



" minor, Stephens. 



Cephus grylle, Fleming. 



Uria— A bird supposed to be the Giiiliemotr Grylle. GruHe.— 



A groaning sound. 



This species is found in Europe — in Iceland, Norway, Den- 

 mark, Sweden, Nova Zembla, the Ferroe Islands, Spitzbergen, 

 and occasionally in Holland and France. In America it 

 appertains to Greenland and Melville Island, and along the 

 continent occurs about Labrador, Baffin's Bay, and Hudson's 

 Bay, and so on to the United States, Mainland, and other 

 parts. 



They have been seen on the shores of Dorsetshire, Hamp- 

 shire, Devonshire, Durham, Northumberland, the Fern Islands 

 in former years, though their visits there now would seem to 

 be 'few and far between,' and other parts of the country. 



These birds are obtained on the Yorkshire coast, but not 

 plentifully; about the year 1816, Arthur Strickland, Esq. shot 

 one out of a small flock in the height of the breeding-season, 

 near the rocks off Flamborough Head. In Cornwall, the 

 bird has occurred at Gwyllyn Vase, but is rare. 



The Black Guillemot is a permanent resident at lona; it 

 also occurs throughout the year in different parts of Scotland, 

 as on Handa, in Sutlierlandshire, Inchkeith, and the Isle of 

 May. In Orkney it is very abundant, and a constant in- 

 habitant; as likewise in the Hebrides and the Shetland 

 Islands. 



In Ireland, too, it is common, and in the Isle of Man. 



