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 Brunnich's Guillemot is a northern bird, and breeds in 

 countless thousands in Greenland, Spitsbergen, and 

 Novaya Zenilya, wintering on the north coast and islands 

 of Siberia. In Iceland it is said to be very local. This 

 Guillemot visits the coasts of Norway in winter only : 

 one is said to have been obtained near Flensborg, and 

 two others on the coast of Denmark ; the most southerly 

 occurrence of which I can find any record is that of a 

 specimen taken near Havre. During the memorable 

 " rush " of Little Auks to our eastern coasts in the 

 winter of 1894-1895, several of Brunnich's Guillemot 

 were met with, and, through the courtesy of their 

 respective possessors, I had the opportunity of examining 

 four of them. The first of these I heard of from Doctor 

 Bendelack Hewetson, as having been obtained at Scar- 

 borough on the 7th of December, 1894. This bird was 

 shot near the North Pier, and the shooter not caring to 

 retrieve it, the bird was seized upon by a boy and 

 taken by him whilst still warm to Mr. W. J. Clarke, of 

 44 Huntriss Row, Scarborough, who most obligingly 

 sent it to me stuffed, for examination, with the following 

 particulars: — Male by dissection. Total length 18 in., 

 expanse of wings 24J in., wing from carpal joint to tip 

 slightly over 8 in. This specimen was exhibited by 

 Mr. J. E. Harting at a meeting of the Linnean Society 

 in January 1S95. The next in chronological order was 

 obtained near Guy him, Cambs., about January 12th, 

 1S95, and sent into Bury St. Edmunds on 16th, where 

 it was seen in flesh by the wife of my informant, the 

 Rev. Julian Tuck, of Tostock Rectory, who purchased 

 the bird, and was good enough to forward it stuffed to 



