ALCINAE. Fol 
BRUNNICH’S GUILLEMOT. 
URIA BRUENNICHI, E. Sabine. 
This species may be distinguished from the preceding by its 
larger size, as well as by its stouter and deeper bill, for which reason 
it has been called the Thick-billed Guillemot ; it is also blacker in 
plumage on the upper-parts. It was originally included in the 
British list upon somewhat slight evidence, for no competent 
observers had met with it on the coasts of Ireland, the Shetlands, 
the St. Kilda group, or in other places where it was said to have 
occurred ; though it seemed probable that a specimen from Caith- 
ness was once in the Sinclair collection at Wick, and that a 
specimen found by Macgillivray among some skins belonging to 
the late Mr. Wilson, janitor to the University of Edinburgh, had 
been sent from the Orkneys, while an example was said to have been 
obtained off the mouth of the Orwell in Suffolk. But all doubt 
was at an end when three identified specimens were obtained on 
the Yorkshire coast, in December 1894 and January 1895, while 
one was taken in Cambridgeshire on January 12th of the latter year. 
The late Mr. E. Hargitt’s collection contained a Briinnich’s Guil- 
