166 



EARE VISITANTS. 



A pair near Leeds : Gould, Birds of Great Britain. 



One, Somersetshire : Baker, Somerset. Archseol. Proc. p. 146. 



Three seen. Firth of Forth, 5th May, 1853; Colquhoun, 



Sporting Days, pp. 20, 21 ; The Ibis, 1867, p. 239; Gray, 



Birds of West of Scotland, p. 399. 

 Two, Sheerness, March 1870: Mathew, Zoologist, 1870, 



p. 2182. 



Fam. ALCID^. 



BEUlsnsriCH'S guillemot. Tlria arra (Pallas)*. 

 Hab. Northern Europe, Asia, and America, 



One or more, coast of Kerry, July 1838 : Sabine, in Ains- 



worth's Descr. Caves of Ballybunian, Kerry; Thompson, 



Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds), vol. iii. p. 213. 

 One, Youghal, 1st Feb. 1850 : Thompson, op. cit. 

 One, Caithness : Wilson, Voyage round Scotland and the 



Isles, vol. ii. p. 179; Gray, Birds of West of Scotland, 



p. 422. In the collection of Mr. Sinclair. 

 Several, Unst, Shetland : Macgillivray [fide Sir J. Boss), 



Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. v. p. 316; Baikie and Heddle, 



Hist. Nat, Orcadensis, p. 86; Crotch, Zoologist, 1861, 



p. 7343 1. 

 Several, Orkney : Macgillivray, op. cit. ; Baikie and Heddle, 



op. cit. ; R. Gray, op. cit. 

 One, Sutherlandshire : Sir W. Milner, List of Birds of Suther- 



landshire : A. G. More, Ibis, 1865, p. 449. 



* Cepphtts arra, Pallas, Zoograph. Eosso-Asiat. ii. p. 347 (1811). 

 Uria briinmchii, Sabine, Trans. linn. Soc. xii. p. 538 (1818). 



t In a list of the birds of Shetland (Zoologist, 1861, p. 7343), 

 Mr. Crotch includes Briinnich's Guillemot as "permanent." At 

 p. 7707 of the same volume, however, he says : — " Briinnich's Guil- 

 lemot we could never see or hear of." 



