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move with their young by easy stages southward to spend the 

 winter. The author just quoted suppHes a full and excellent 

 account of the species, chiefly from observation at the Parn Is- 

 lands, on the coast of Northumberland, one of its breeding-haunts. 

 Mr. Laurence Edmonston gives an interesting notice of the young, 

 and of the moulting, &c., of this bird and the razor-bill, as ob- 

 served by liim at Zetland.'^ The Bishop of Norwich, in his 

 ' Familiar History of Birds,' treats very pleasingly of the guillemot 

 at the South Stack, near Holyhead, one of its summer stations. 

 Mr. Waterton devotes one of his agreeable essays (1st series, 

 p. 153) to it, not only as observed in its breeding-haunt, 

 but, when he was lowered down the rocks near Plamborough 

 Head, to its nests, or rather to its eggs. Audubon (vol. iii. 

 p. 143) descants very particularly on the loves of the guillemots, 

 as witnessed by him during their migration, and graphically 

 describes the species at the Murref Eocks, near Great Macatina 

 Harbour : he mentions a boat returning thence, after a few hours' 

 absence, to the sliip in which he was, laden with 25,000 of 

 their eggs. 



THE BRIDLED GUILLEMOT. 



Ringed Guillemot. 



Uria leiicophthalmos, Faber. 

 „ lacri/mans, Valenc. 



Has been obtained on the coast. 



Mr. R. Chute, of Blennerville (Kerry), shot one at Dingle. j: 

 Another was killed by a boating party ofl; the Giant's Causeway 



* Wemerian Memoii's, vol. v. part i. p. 22. 



f This word reminds me of the name muir-eun (pronounced mmT-yan) bestowed 

 on this species at Horn Head, and the meaning of whicli, according to an Irish scho- 

 lar, is simply sea-bird. Murre is the appellation by which the guillemot is knowTi 

 in Cork harbour (Mr. R. WaiTen, juu.), and the razorbill at Lambay. Frowl is 

 said to be the name applied to the former bird in this island (Mr. R. J. Montgomery). 



X I noticed the circumstance in the 'Annals of Nat. Hist.' for 1848, vol. i. p. G2, 



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