I. 



FOOLISH G. 



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Genus LXXXV. GUILLEMOT. 



Foolifh Guillemot, Gen. Sytt. vit p. 339. N» i. 



A Singular circumftance has been obferved of this bird, which 

 is, that when taken out of fight of the fea, and turned loofe, 

 it does not attempt to fly j but as foon as carried within reach of 

 the fea, it flies thereto very readily i and if it is put into frefh wa- 

 ter, it will fwim about, but feems unwilling to dive, or, if forced 

 thereto, does not to any great depth, and diredly rifes again to 

 the furface : whether this is owing to the want of proper food con- 

 tained in the water, or repugnant to it as an clement unpleafing 

 to its nature, cannot be determined. This bird, like the Razor- 

 bill, carries the fifli with the tails hanging out of the bill *. 



Black Guillemot, Gen.Syn. vi. p. 332. N?3. ^_ 



-(- BLACK G. 

 T^HE Black Guillemot is common in the Bay of Dublin, which it 

 does not forfake the whole year f . 



• * Mt. Jack/on. f tci. 



SupPL. Mm Genus 



