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island. In Greenland it is almost entirely replaced by Briinnich's Guillemot, and is therefore 

 very rare. Two specimens were sent by Holboll from Godthaab, where it breeds, and perhaps 

 also in other parts of the coast. 



In Iceland it breeds in many portions of the coast, and in some places in countless thousands. 

 According to Faber many remain over the winter. The Bridled Guillemot is found there in 

 about the same proportion as elsewhere ; but a most curious variety, having the bill and feet 

 yellow, is said to occur now and then on Grimsey. 



Captain Feilden, in his notes on the ornithology of the Faeroes, says that, next to the 

 Puffin, it is " the most abundant of the rock-birds, and supplies a large proportion of the food to 

 the islanders. On the magnificent cliffs of the islands of Skuce and Great Domin, it congregates 

 during the breeding-season in countless multitudes ; and when sailing underneath these nurseries, 

 the noise made by the wings of the continuous ascending and descending flights of the Guillemots 

 and Puffins is like that of the wind rushing through a number of telegraph wires during a gale. 

 Landt mentions that the number of the winged tribes swarming between Great Domin and Skuce 

 in the summer is incredible, that they almost darken the air and stun the ears with their piercing 

 cries, and that two people in the same boat cannot hear each other speak. This is either an 

 exaggeration, or else the rock-birds must have decreased since Landt's time. Still it is a wondrous 

 sight, passing along the base of these cliffs during the breeding-season ; for the water is then 

 covered with Guillemots, Puffins, and Razorbills, that are so tame and regardless of man that 

 they just dive to avoid the stroke of the oars, and come up again a few yards from the boat ; 

 whilst, at a distance of a couple of miles from the Fugleberg, where the limit of protection 

 ceases, these same birds are exceedingly wary, and hardly allow a boat to approach them within 

 gunshot without diving. The breeding-places of the Guillemot and other rock-birds throughout 

 Fseroe are protected from the 1st of March to the 15th of August, during which time no gun may 

 be fired within a distance of two English miles direct to sea, and one mile on each side of 

 Fugelberg. The breeding-places of the Shag are protected all the year round, whilst on 

 Mygenaes, where the Gannet breeds, the date is from the 25th of January to the 25th of 

 October. No gun may be fired within one mile (English) of an Eider-Duck breeding-establish- 

 ment : the punishment for the first infraction of the law is a fine of from one to ten rixdollars ; 

 and a subsequent conviction entails loss of gun and sporting implements, and a further fine. 

 The various methods of fowling employed by the islanders are minutely described by Debes and 

 Landt, and more recently by Miiller (Fserceernes Fuglefauna). The rules for the division of the 

 birds, on the conclusion of a day's fowling, are of very ancient date, and extremely complicated 

 to a stranger, whilst they vary in different islands." 



The Guillemot breeds also, Mr. Collett informs me, in vast numbers in the more boreal 

 portions of Norway ; but, as is the case with the Puffin, the breeding colonies are smaller south 

 of the arctic circle. Still it breeds on Risto and several other islands off Stat, and sparingly 

 down to the Sosteroer, near the Swedish frontier. In the autumn and winter large numbers are 

 found round the whole coast, and it penetrates in flocks up the southern fiords. It is somewhat 

 remarkable that, according to Pastor Sommerfelt (Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. 1861, p. 88), the ringed 

 variety is much more numerous than the ordinary form, or Brunnich's Guillemot, in the Varanger 

 fiord; and in the winter of 1857-58 vast numbers of this form appeared there. Mr. Collett, on 



