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I do not find it recorded from the Faeroes ; but in Scandinavia it is occasionally met with, 

 and, according to Professor Nilsson, it breeds, strange to say, as far south as the Baltic. Mr. R. 

 Collett informs me that he has never yet been able to find a colony of Briinnich's Guillemots 

 breeding on the coast of Norway, and doubts if it ever does breed there. The colony of 

 Guillemots which inhabits the most northern point in that country, viz. on Stappen, near the 

 North Cape, appears to consist solely of the common species. In the winter flocks of this species 

 occur off the coasts, generally in company with the common Guillemot, but occasonally in 

 separate flocks, and sometimes they penetrate up the fiords. Specimens Mr. Collett has examined 

 from the Christianiafiord have usually been birds of the year, which had still the remains of the 

 first plumage, having the throat more or less blackish. They usually appear in Southern Norway 

 in November. Professor Nilsson states that it breeds on the Carlsoar, off Gottland, on the 

 Swedish coast, a locality much further south than any in which I find it recorded as breeding 

 by any one else. It has not been met with on the coasts of Finland, but doubtless occurs on the 

 northern coasts of Russia, as it is common on Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen, being in the latter 

 place, Professor Malmgren states, the most numerous species, and breeding in large numbers on 

 the so-called Alkefjell, where it takes possession of the broadest portion of the fell-side above the 

 Black Guillemot and Spitsbergen Puffin. It is still numerous on the mountainous islands above 

 80° 5' N. lat., as, for instance, on Walden Island. It feeds chiefly on Crustacea (Amphipoda), but 

 devours also large numbers of fish. Professor Newton says that Sir James Ross did not meet 

 with it beyond Walden and Little Table islands, and he did not see it to the eastward of South 

 Cape. By about the end of August, he observes, they were rapidly quitting their breeding- 

 haunts. Mr. Gillett met with this Guillemot commonly on the coasts of Novaya Zemlya; and 

 Dr. Th. von Heuglin, who also met with it there, states that this appears to be its eastern limit. 



According to Borggreve it is a rare winter straggler to the coasts of Germany, and has been 

 obtained by Mr. Boeck near Danzig. It appears to be a very rare straggler to the Danish coasts ; 

 for Kjserbolling only cites one instance of its occurrence there, viz. that of a specimen received 

 by Mecklenburg from Handeved, near Flensborg, on the 24th November 1836 ; and in the new 

 edition of Kjserbolling's work now being published, the editor, Mr. Collin, says that he purchased 

 two of a game-dealer in Copenhagen on the 13th February 1856, which were in full summer 

 plumage. It is stated to have occurred on the German coasts of the North Sea ; and Professor 

 Schlegel says that it is met with rarely in winter on the Dutch coast. It is not recorded from 

 the coast of Belgium, nor do Messrs. Degland and Gerbe cite any instance of its occurrence in 

 France ; but Mr. E. Hargitt possesses a fine specimen obtained at Havre. 



I do not find it recorded from the northern shores of Asia; but it has been recorded from 

 various parts of North America, and is met with during winter as far south as the Northern and 

 Middle United States. According to Mr. Dall it was not uncommon at Kadiak, and abundant 

 at St. George's in August, where it breeds on the perpendicular cliffs. In Arctic America it is 

 said to be very generally distributed. I met with it during the winter on the coasts of New 

 Brunswick ; and it is said by Bryant to breed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Dr. E. Coues states 

 that he possesses it from New Hampshire ; and examples are in the Philadelphia Museum from 

 New Jersey, in both cases obtained in the winter. 



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