GUILLEMOT, LITTLE AUK, RAZOR-BILL, PUFFIN 287 



in fact it looks as if it had poked its head into a 

 soot-bag. The upper parts of body dark blackish- 

 grey, and lower parts white. The legs and feet are 

 a dark flesh colour (livid) tinged with dusky, accord^ 

 ing to age ; these parts brighten up. Bottle-nose, 

 Sea Parrot, Gulder-head Pope, Mullet, Coulterneb, 

 and Tammie Norrie o' the Bass, are some of the 

 titles that the Puffin lives under. He is an exca- 

 vator, a first-rate flighter and diver, and last but 

 not least, a rare good fighter. It is only when he 

 gets in a ploughed field thirty or forty miles away 

 from the tide, as he has been found recently, that 

 Tammie gets put to it a bit ; and even then he bites 

 when he is picked up. Guillemots, Razor-bills, and 

 Puffins have all been picked up this year — 1894 — 

 blown far from home. 



THE COMMON GUILLEMOT. 

 (Uria trotle.) 



Male. — The bill black ; iris brown ; head and 

 upper part of neck black tinged with brown, which 

 is lost on the middle of the neck behind. The 

 lower hind-neck and upper parts are greyish-black ; 

 tips of secondary quills white ; from the middle of 

 the fore-neck to the tail white. The legs and feet 

 are dusky, with a tinge of red. Length, from bill to 

 end of tail, seventeen inches. 



The female is similar to the male. 



Winter plumage. — When the autumn moult is 

 finished, the greater part of the dark brown of the 



