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RINGED GUILLEMOT. 



BRIDLED GUILLEMOT. 



Uria laclirymans, GoTJLD. TKMMINCK. 



Uria ? Laehrymans Weeping. 



THIS Guillemot derives its name, or, to speak more 

 accurately, its names, English and Latin, from the narrow 

 white streak drawn backwards and downwards from the eye, 

 giving a fancied resemblance^ as imagined by some, to a 

 bridle, and by others to the trickling down of a tear. 

 This is the onlv r ostensible mark of difference between it and 

 the Common Guillemot, from which it was first, as it 

 appears, distinguished by Choris, and of which it has been 

 considered by others only as a variety, the two species, or 

 supposed species, being often found consorting together. 



In Europe they breed on Grimsey, an island north of 

 Iceland; and they also occur on the coasts of Scandinavia. 



The present species appears to be more common on the 

 Welsh coast than .elsewhere in this country. In the county 

 of Norfolk one was shot at Yarmouth, on the 9th. of 

 October, 1847. They occur in small numbers on the York- 

 shire coast. Two were killed by Mr. William Felkin, Junior, 

 of Carrington, near Nottingham, as he has informed me, at 

 Flamborough Head, near Bridlington. Also in the county 

 of Durham. In Sussex one was found dead in Seaford Bay, 

 in December, 1852. 



A Bridled Guillemot was shot in Plymouth Sound, by 

 John Gatcombe, Esq., of Wyndham Place, Plymouth, in the 

 winter; and another was obtained in Plymouth Sound in the 

 latter end of the summer. In Hampshire, one at Sepe, in 

 the parish of Fawley, near Southampton, of which the Kev. 

 -R. E. Harrisson has written me word. 



