178 THE NATURALIST IN NORWAY. 



pale blue, marked with black and brown spots and 

 blotches. 



Brunnick's guillemot (Z7. Brunnichii) has its home 

 in Greenland and Spitzbergen, whence it visits Norway. 

 It is easily distinguished by the thickness of its bill. 

 The eggs differ from the preceding species by being 

 rounder in shape and not so long. 



The ringed guillemot (U. lacrymans) is common on 

 the coast of Finmark, and is generally to be seen with 

 the common guillemot. It is very similar in appearance 

 to the common guillemot, except that it has a white 

 ring round the eye, which extends on to the neck, and 

 is somewhat like the lash of a whip. 



The black guillemot (U. grylle) is common on the 

 west and north-west coast of Norway. In autumn the 

 old birds are seen on the fjord near Christiania, the 

 young birds of the year lower down the fjord. Its 

 Norwegian name of teiste resembles the English pro- 

 vincial name of tyste. It lays two eggs in the holes or 

 crevices of rocks, and sometimes among stones on the 

 beach. The eggs are very pale green, marked with 

 black, brown, or ash-gray spots. The Norwegians eat 

 its flesh, and also make soup of it. 



The little auk (Mergulus melanoleucos) . The home 

 of this bird is in Greenland, Iceland, and Spitzbergen, 

 but numerous colonies visit the coast of Finmark. It 

 is called here the alke-konge, or auk king. It lays a 

 single bluish-white egg, marked with black spots, in 

 the hole of a rock. Nilsson says that in the winter of 

 1830-31 many flocks of this species visited the coast 

 of Scania, in the south of Sweden ; at times the harbour 

 of Ystad was almost covered with them. 



The razor-bill (Alca torda) is seen in flocks on the 



