98 Mr. D. A. Baiinerman on the [Ibis, 



tlie same effect (J. f. O. 1855, p. 177), and later wrote that 

 it was several times killed by Berthelot in Canaria, where 

 it appears in the harbour of Ciudad [the old town harbour 

 of Las Palmas about three miles from the present landing 

 place — the Puerto de la Luz], according to the opinion 

 of competent naturalists, only as a bird of passage in winter 

 (J. f. O. 1857, p. 348). 



Savile Reid mentions that he did not meet with the 

 Razorbill himself, but records that Don Ramon Gomez had 

 specimens in his collection from the neighbourhood of 

 Orotava ; he notes '' This is the only member of the Alcidse 

 I recorded as Teneriffian '^ (Ibis, 1888, p. 82). 



Meade-Waldo recorded it (Ibis, 1893, p. 207) as " a quite 

 accidental visitor/^ and notes that he knew of but two 

 examples from the islands. 



It does not seem to have been observed since 1891. 



Range. The Razorbill breeds in Europe, and in winter 

 wanders to the Mediterranean seas. It has occurred once 

 only in the Azores; the Canary Islands are probably the 

 most southern point from which this species has been 

 recorded on the African side of the Atlantic. The Razor- 

 bill also breeds in North America, extending to Long Island 

 in winter. 



Uria troille troille. Common Guillemot. 



Coly mbus troille Linn. Fauna Suecica, 2nd ed. 1761, p. 52 

 — Type locality : Spitsbergen. 



The Common Guillemot is a very Rare Visitor. It has 

 only once been properly identified, and then by Bolle who 

 saw a specimen in the Leon collection in Canaria (J. f. O. 

 1857, p. 348). Prior to this Webb and Berthelot record 

 the bird (Oin. Canarienne, p. 41) as a migrant, and very 

 probably the bird in the Lron collection was the only one 

 ever obtained. Webb and Berthelot might possibly have 

 known this collection, for although they were working in 

 the Canaries twenty-two years before Bolle arrived, we have 

 no record of when the Leon collection was formed. The 



