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THE LITTLE AUK. 



example was caught near Duns in November 1875 j 1 and 

 the gardener at Abbey St. Bathans lately showed me a 

 specimen which he had picked up dead near the Saw-Mill 

 there in winter, about 1881. This bird was more than 

 usually numerous on the coast in the autumn and winter 

 of 1878. 2 



The Little Auk measures only about eight inches in 

 length. It breeds within the Arctic Circle. 3 



i Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. vii. p. 517. 2 Ibid. vol. viii. p. 502. 



3 It is stated in Turnbull's Birds of East-Lothian, p. 32, that the Little Auk 

 breeds at St. Abb's Head, but this is a mistake. 



