BIRDS. 87 



Order 7. ALCJE. 

 Fam. ALCIDJE. 



367. Alca torda L. Razorbill. 



Resident, breeding in considerable numbers on the Flam- 

 borough cliffs. It arrives at the breeding stations early in 

 the year, departing with its young late in July. After 

 continued rough weather in winter, I have observed great 

 numbers washed ashore dead on the coast of Holderness. 



>ka impmnis L. 



368. Lomvia troile (Z.). Common Guillemot. 



Resident, breeding in vast numbers on the Flamborough 

 cliffs, beginning to arrive there in May and June, leaving 

 its breeding haunts in the middle of August. Remains off 

 the coast through the winter. 



369. Lomvia bruennichi (Sabine). Brunnich's Guillemot. 



370. Uria grylle (Z.). Black Guillemot. 



Casual visitant, occasionally seen off the coast in spring, 

 autumn, and winter, more frequently off Flamborough 

 Head than elsewhere. Mr. Arthur Strickland, in 1844, 

 informed Mr. Allis that thirty years before he had killed 

 a specimen in summer plumage out of a small flock at 

 Flamborough, in the height of the breeding season; 

 whether they were breeding he could not say. 



371. Mergulus alle (Z.). Little Auk. 



Winter visitant, not uncommon off the coast, occasionally 

 driven in shore and far inland by stress of weather. 



372. Fratercula arctica (Z). Puffin. 



Resident, nesting in May and June, in immense numbers, on 

 the Flamborough Cliffs, retiring far out to sea in the 

 winter, at which season only a few are found off the coast 

 Of the Flamborough sea-fowl, this is the last to arrive at its 

 breeding-station, which it leaves in mid- August. 



