LXXVI. HEADS OF KINGED GUILLEMOT, COMMON 

 GUILLEMOT, AND YOUNG EAZOEBILL. 



EAZORBILLS and Guillemots are common here, and Puffins are to 

 be seen sometimes in autumn. None of them breed in this 

 immediate neighbourhood. They are difficult to shoot, as they 

 dive at the first flash of a gun. The ringed or bridled Guillemot 

 whose head is on the left in the drawing was shot on the 

 Clyde, near Greenock. We have also seen one here. The 

 Guillemot flies in the air much better than one would suppose 

 possible with such small wings. We had an excellent op- 

 portunity of observing the way in which it uses them under 

 water, by letting away in clear, but not deep, water one which 

 had been caught uninjured. 



The head in the centre is that of a Common Guillemot in 

 winter plumage, from a fresh specimen in Glasgow market in 

 January. 



The head on the right is that of a Eazorbill bought in 

 Glasgow market in January. It is a bird of the year, and 

 therefore the beak is not fully developed, but the plumage 

 resembles the winter plumage of the adult bird. 



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