GUILLEMOT, LITTLE AUK, RAZOR-BILL, PUFFIN 287 



in fact it looks as if it had poked its head into a 

 soot-bag. The upper parts of body dark blackish- 

 grey, and lower parts white. The legs and feet are 

 a dark flesh colour (livid) tinged with dusky, accord- 

 ing to age ; these parts brighten up. Bottle-nose, 

 Sea Parrot, Gulder-head Pope, Mullet, Coulterneb, 

 and Tammie Norrie o' the Bass, are some of the 

 titles that the Puffin lives under. He is an exca- 

 vator, a first-rate flighter and diver, and last but 

 not least, a rare good fighter. It is only when he 

 gets in a ploughed field thirty or forty miles away 

 from the tide, as he has been found recently, that 

 Tammie gets put to it a bit ; and even then he bites 

 when he is picked up. Guillemots, Razor-bills, and 

 Puffins have all been picked up this year 1894 

 blown far from home. 



THE COMMON GUILLEMOT. 



(Uria troile.} 



MALE. The bill black ; iris brown ; head and 

 upper part of neck black tinged with brown, which 

 is lost on the middle of the neck behind. The 

 lower hind-neck and upper parts are greyish-black ; 

 tips of secondary quills white ; from the middle of 

 the fore-neck to the tail white. The legs and feet 

 are dusky, with a tinge of red. Length, from bill to 

 end of tail, seventeen inches. 



The female is similar to the male. 



Winter plumage. When the autumn moult is 

 finished, the greater part of the dark brown of the 



