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Guillemot, and was preserved by Mr. Swaysland. Mr. Dennis 

 sent another specimen to the same bird-stuffer on Jan. 8th, 

 1853, which had been picked up dead under the cliff at 

 Seaford. 



Mr. Booth remarks that in the Channel he has seen 

 these birds very plentiful on several occasions, and that on 

 April 23rd, 1884, several were observed eight or nine miles 

 off Brighton, in perfect winter dress ; the white ring and 

 bridle were still conspicuous, a narrow line of dull white 

 enclosing the bridle. A bird exhibiting this state of 

 plumage was shot off Rottingdean, in December 1878. 

 Mr. Wilson states ('Zoologist,' p. 6606) that a specimen 

 was taken in a field near Worthing, in August 1854. At 

 p. 9123, Mr. Dutton records a very beautiful specimen shot 

 off Eastbourne, April. 19th, 1864. 



BLACK GUILLEMOT. 



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This Guillemot is only an occasional straggler to the Sussex 

 coast. It breeds in the rocky cliffs of the coast of Scotland, 

 more especially on the eastern side, and lives almost entirely 

 on the open sea, nothing but stress of weather ever bringing 

 it inland except in the breeding-season. The general habits 

 of this species are much the same as those of the last 

 described ; two points of difference are, however, remarkable, 

 that whereas the Common Guillemot never lays more than 

 one egg, the present bird always lays two, and instead of 

 placing them on the higher ledges of the cliffs, it always 

 chooses a locality in crevices, at a low elevation, under stones 

 near the water, or even on the sea-shore. 



I am informed by Mr. Bristow, the well-known naturalist 



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