BLACK GUILLEMOT 



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an old wall, on the top of a single rock at sea, and at an 

 elevation of fifty or sixty feet above its surface. The Black 

 Guillemot resorts annually to the same holes." 



The eggs are two in number, and of a white colour, with a 

 tinge of green, spotted, blotted, and speckled more or less 

 with grey, reddish brown, and very dark brown or blackish. 

 Mr. Hewitson has known one of a pink colour. 



Both parents attend to the young until able to fly and 

 dive, when the latter forage for themselves. 



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