3278 THE ZooLocist— NovEMBER, 1872. 
since Landt’s time; still, it is a wondrous sight, passing along the 
base of these cliffs during the breeding-season, for the water is then 
covered with guillemots, puffins and razorbills, that are so tame 
and so regardless of man that they just dive to avoid the stroke of 
the oars, and come up again a few yards from the boat; whilst, at 
a distance of a couple of miles from the Fugleberg, where the limit 
of protection ceases, these same birds are exceedingly wary, and 
hardly allow a boat to approach them within gunshot without 
diving. The breeding-places of the guillemot and other rock-birds 
throughout Feroe are protected from the Ist of March to the 15th 
of August: during that period no gun may be fired within a distance 
of two English miles direct to sea, and one mile on each side of a 
Fugleberg. The breeding-places of the shag are protected all the 
year round, whilst on Mygenzs, where the gannet breeds, the 
date is from the 25th of January to the 25th of October. No gun 
may be fired within one English mile of an eider duck breeding 
establishment: the punishment for the first infraction of the law is 
a fine of from one to ten rix-dollars, and a subsequent conviction 
entails loss of gun and sporting implements, and a further fine. The 
various methods of fowling employed by the islanders are minutely 
described by Debes and Landt, and more recently by Miiller 
(Feroernes Fuglefauna). The rules for the division of the birds, 
on the conclusion of a day’s fowling, are of very ancient date, and 
extremely complicated to a stranger, whilst they vary in different 
islands. 
110. Uria grylle, Linn. Black Guillemot. Native name, Tajsti, 
—This bird is a resident, and tolerably abundant throughout the 
islands. In the North Isles, owing to the paucity of population, 
and consequently fewer guns, it is more abundant than in Suderoe. 
The black guillemot is an innocent and confiding bird, and seems 
to have little fear of man; consequently it often falls a victim to the 
juvenile gunners. Formerly a tradition was prevalent that the man 
who shot this bird would not have good luck out fishing, but now 
little respect is paid to this old-fashioned idea, and I have often 
been told by the boatmen to shoot this gentle bird, my demurring 
to do so being considered more in the light of my want of skill as 
a gunner than any other reason. I found it very numerous near to 
the village of Videroe, where it breeds on the land belonging to 
the pastor: the nests were placed in crannies and in holes between 
rocks, at an elevation of two to three hundred feet above the sea, 
and it was a pretty sight to see these birds with their bright red 
