702 BRUNNICH’S GUILLEMOT. 
lemot which was undoubtedly killed near Havre in France. The 
species is a straggler to the coasts:of the North Sea during winter, 
and sometimes visits the higher latitudes of Norway in considerable 
numbers ; but it has not yet been recognized in the Feeroes, while 
even in Iceland it is almost confined to the northern districts. In 
Greenland it breeds above lat. 64°, and Col. Feilden has described 
(Zool. 1878, p. 380) his visit to a vast colony or “loomery” in the 
cliffs of Sanderson’s Hope—over a thousand feet in height—a little 
to the south of Upernavik; he also observed two individuals in 
August as far north as lat. 79°, after which this bird was not seen 
again until the return of the ‘Alert’ to navigable water south of 
Cape Sabine. It abounds on Jan Mayen, as well as Spitsbergen, 
and round the latter it seems to pass the winter, for at 80° N. Mr. 
Arnold Pike records its presence on January 11th; while at Franz 
Josef Land, where there are several “loomeries,” Mr. B. Leigh Smith’s 
party met with it on March gth; and Dr. Nansen shot a bird in 
lat. 82° 19’ N. It is also plentiful on Novaya Zemlya and along the 
Siberian coast of the Arctic Ocean as far as the waters to the north 
of Bering Strait. In Bering Sea and the North Pacific, American 
naturalists distinguish a larger sub-species, which they call Uva 
Jomvia arra; but on the Atlantic sea-board the typical form breeds 
abundantly down to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, while in the winter 
of 1896 its range extended to South Carolina, and several birds 
were captured as far inland as Indiana. 
The eggs are, as a rule, somewhat thicker and blunter than those 
of the Common Guillemot, but they are subject to the same 
variations in colour, though in green specimens that colour is 
perhaps a trifle more pronounced. The food and habits, so far as is 
known, do not differ materially from those of the preceding species. 
The adult in summer has the beak black, with a whitish line 
along the edge of the upper mandible from the nostrils to the gape ; 
crown of the head and nape black, with a greenish gloss; remaining 
upper-parts duller black ; secondaries tipped with white ; throat and 
fore-neck sooty-brown, as in the Razorbill; under-parts white, that 
colour running more to a point in front of the neck than is the case 
with the Common Guillemot, in which the white usually terminates 
in a rounded arch. Length of a male 18 in.; wing 8:25 in.; the 
female being rather smaller. The dark throat is lost in winter, as 
itis in & ¢rvoile; and in the young bird the bill is much smaller 
than in the adult. White varieties have been met with by Col. 
Feilden in the Greenland and Spitsbergen seas. 
