226 THE BIBDS OS' CORNWALL. 



Fowey ; breeds in north Swedish Lapland, Spitzbergen, and 

 across the Siberian tundras ; in winter visits the Mediterranean. 



Razorbill ; resident ; breeds in great numbers at Scilly and 

 at one or two other places on the south coast, notably Gull 

 Eock, Falmouth ; except at the breeding season spends moist 

 of the time on the water some distance out at sea. 



Common Guillemot ; resident, with the same breeding 

 stations as the Razorbill, though not so abundant at Scilly ; in 

 spring and summer abundant round the coast, but in winter 

 usually keeps out at sea ; the variety known as the Bridled or 

 Ringed G-uillemot occurs not unfrequently. 



Brunnich's Guillemot ; an accidental visitor ; breeding 

 stations in the Arctic Seas from latitude 64° northward ; a strag- 

 gler to the coasts of the North Sea in winter ; of the twenty 

 occurrences in Britain one was reported from Rosemullion 

 Head. 



Black Guillemot ; a casual visitor breeding abundantly in 

 the north of Scotland and on the continent up to the North Cape ; 

 two specimens have been shot in the county, one at Mount's Bay, 

 and one at Gryllyngvase ; wanders but little in winter. 



Little Auk ; a regular winter visitor occurring singly or in 

 pairs in most of our estuaries ; has been observed on Truro river 

 in December or January for the last five years ; the smallest 

 of our cliff birds ; breeds in incredible numbers on and about 

 Spitzbergen and commonly west to Baffin's Bay and east to 

 Novaya Zemlya. 



PuflBn ; resident, breeding in great numbers at Scilly j 

 may nest on the mainland, possibly in rabbit holes, as it is 

 locally common in the breeding season on the south coast as far 

 east as Falmouth ; from August till early May it lives far out at 

 sea, being essentially an oceanic bird ; forms vast breeding 

 colonies in the Hebrides, on the Faeroes, in Arctic Norway, and in 

 Iceland, and breeds abundantly in western Ireland. 



Great Northern Diver ; a winter visitor in increasing 

 numbers to the west of the county ; common at Scilly ; occasionally 

 occurs in small flocks and in some seasons is fairly abundant, as 

 in 1874-75, 1886-87, 1890-91; a western species, Iceland being 

 its eastern breeding limit ; plentiful in South Grreenland and in 

 the Fur countries of North America. 



