164 BLACK GUILLEMOT. Class II. 



land; in the isle of St. Kilda; and, as Mr. Ray 

 imagines, in the Farn islands off the coast of 

 Northumberland; v^e have also seen it on the 

 rocks of Llandudno in Caernarvonshire, and on 

 islets S., W. of Anglesey, near Llanddxvyn, 

 where it breeds. Except at breeding time, it 

 keeps always at sea ; and is very difficult to be 

 shot, diving at the flash of the pan. The Welsh 

 call this bird cas gan longwr, or tlie sailor's 

 hatred, from a notion that its appearance fore- 

 bodes a storm. It visits St. Kudo's in March; 

 makes its nest far under ground, and lays a grey 

 egg, or, as Steller says, whitish spotted with 

 rust, and speckled with ash-color. 



