220 BRIDLED GUILLEMOT. 



in some parts of its plumage, it breeds exclusively 

 with its own kindred, though in company with 

 U. troile and Irunichii, and is very local in distribu- 

 tion. In Iceland and the adjoining islands, where 

 it seems to be found in greatest abundance, it is 

 known by a different provincial name, and the na- 

 tives at once distingush it, and can separate not only 

 the birds, but also the eggs, from those of the com- 

 mon species. 



The claim of the Bridled Guillemot to a place in 

 the British list rests on the authority of Mr. Gould, 

 who states, in his Birds of Europe, that it breeds 

 on the coast of Wales ; while Mr. Yarrell writes, 

 that since Mr. Gould's description, it has been taken 

 on the coasts of both Yorkshire and Durham. We 

 have never had the good fortune to meet with it in 

 Scotland, nor do the fishermen or inhabitants near 

 the breeding-places almost always very correct in 

 their distinctions of the creatures frequenting their 

 vicinity know it. It was procured by Mr. Procter 

 in his excursion to Iceland, and Nilsson includes it 

 as a variety in his Fauna of Scandinavia. 



Bill weaker, and more slender than that of the 

 common Guillemot; the head and neck dark olive- 

 brown, intermediate in shade between that of the 

 common and Brunnich's, the eye surrounded with 

 a ring of white, which is prolonged in a narrow 

 line below the separation of the auriculars; the 

 back, wings, and tail are a dark greyish brown, the 

 secondaries narrowly tipped with white, all the un- 

 der parts white. 



