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ALCA TROILE. 
ALCA TROILE (Linnens). 
THE GUILLEMOT. 
§ 4863. Mifteen—Flamborough, Yorkshire. Bought at Brid- 
lington [?] not later than 1843. 
One of these is remarkable as having a yellow ground-colour, 
a variety not mentioned by Hewitson or Yarrell. Others may be 
considered to shew the most usual appearances of this Protean egg 
in respect of colour and markings, and the two extremes of size, 
while one of them is said to have been doubled yelked. 
[It is not certain that these, as well as the Razorbills’ entered above 
(§ 4838), were bought at Bridlington, but they were assuredly obtained at one 
of the places on that coast, and came from the well-known Flamborough 
cliffs. The large egg measures 3'8 by 2°22 in. | 
§ 4864. Me.—Flamborough. From Mr. Williamson, of 
Scarborough, 1847. 
Mr. Williamson told me this autumn that the climbers of 
Flamborough distinguish the Ringed Guillemots’ eggs from the 
others. He has three or four in the cabinet of the Scarborough 
Museum, all of which are white and unspotted, or nearly so. 
[Mr. Wolley was subsequently able to prove the fallacy of this belief, and 
for the past fifty years no one with any experience of the subject has 
. recognized the Ringed Guillemot as a good species. ] 
§ 4865. Zen.—Handa, Sutherland, June, 1849. 
On the 6th of June Mr. Edge and [ started for Handa from 
Scourie with four men. Two more joined us on the island. On 
the 9th we went there again. On the first of these visits I took 
about fifty eggs, and on the second about one hundred and sixty, 
including Guillemots’, Razorbills’ [§ 48140], Puffins’ [§ 4939], 
Scarfs’ of two kinds [§§ 5194, 5214], and Kittiwakes’ [§ 4653]. I 
saw some Black Guillemots, but not, I think, in Handa [ef. § 4897]. 
We searched in vain for an Eagle’s nest said to be there, but the exact 
station was not pointed out to us’. The mode of climbing adopted 
1 [It would seem to have heen a mistake on the part of the people for a Falcon’s 
nest, which they found containing young birds.—Eb. | 
