It does not deposit its eggs on the bare rocks, like 

 most of its genus, but in crevices or under stones 

 or blocks. They are often three in number, but 

 more commonly two, and are of a greyish white 

 colour, with blotches and spots of dark brawn and 

 purplish grey. 



GUILLEMOT, BftUNNICK'S. 



URTA BRUKNICIIIT, Saline. 



Brunnick's Guillemot is at once distinguished, at 

 any season of the year, from our common Guillemot 

 by the shortness, stoutness, and regularity of its 

 bill. This species has occasionally been met with 

 in the Orkneys and the Shetland Islands, on the 

 coast of Kerry in Ireland, and on the Faroe Islands, 

 Iceland, Spitzbergen, and the Arctic Sea, &c. One 

 example is said to have been killed as far to the 

 south as the vicinity of Naples. It does not differ 

 in its habits and food from the common Guillemot. 

 It is -said to breed at Grimsey, an island situated 

 about forty miles from Iceland, in company with 

 the common Guillemot, the eggs greatly resem- 

 bling each other. 



