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must go further, for they must also believe that when 

 the old birds leave England in the autumn, to winter 

 along the shores of the southern parts of the con- 

 tinent, the young birds take a contrary direction, 

 and accumulate in the north of Scotland, as far as 

 Zetland ; in which parts they are infinitely more 

 abundant than any where farther south." " Myriads 

 of Foolish Guillemots and Razor-bills resort to the 

 lofty promontories of the southern as well as the 

 northern shores of Great Britain ; and when these 

 retire, not a Lesser Guillemot or a Black-billed 

 Auk is to be seen in their place for a month or six 

 weeks, and then a few stragglers only, for they are 

 never common in the south of England." 



This species is soon reconciled to confinement. 

 An individual captured alive on the coast of Devon- 

 shire devoured flesh as well as fish, and had become 

 quite docile in the short space of ten days, when it 

 died from an injury received in its capture, approach- 

 ing to the side of the pond, in which it was confined, 

 to be fed. 



MARBLED GUILLEMOT. 



(Uria marmorata.) 



UR. supra castaneo fuscoque undulata subtus jusco alboque nc~ 



bulosa, rostro nigro, pedibus fulvis . 

 Guillemot varied above with chesnut and brown, beneath clouded 



with brown and white, with the beak black, the legs fulvous. 

 Uria marmorata. Lath. Ind. Orn. 6. 336. 

 Marbled Guillemot. Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 438. pi. 22. Lath. 



Gen. Syn. 6. 336. pi. 96. 



