COMMON GUILLEMOT, 239 
ORDER ALC. 
FAMILY ALCIDA.—SUB-FAMILY ALCINZ, 
RAZORBILL. 
ALcA TORDA, Linnzus. 
The sandy shores of Wirral are wholly unsuited to 
the habits of the rock-breeding Auks. Razorbills and 
Guillemots, however, breed on the cliffs of the Great 
and Little Orme and Puffin Island; and, except in the 
breeding season, a few birds may often be seen at sea 
off the Cheshire coast and in the estuaries. Storm- 
driven Razorbills are occasionally picked up inland; 
one was caught in a garden at Chester on January 
27th, 1894,' and in the following month another was 
captured on the Ship Canal at Carrington. 
COMMON GUILLEMOT. 
URIA TROILE (Linnzeus). 
Like the Razorbill, the Common Guillemot is 
frequently met with off the shores of Cheshire, where 
it is most abundant in winter. At all seasons of the 
year dead bodies of this bird, as well as of the Razor- 
bill and Puffin, may be seen lying among the débris 
washed up by the tide. An example of the ringed form 
1 Dobie, op. cit. p. 345. 
