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occurring on the same extent of coast-line on the mainland. It is found nesting on Berneray 

 (Barra Head) and Mingalay, and also on various rocky islets northwards of these localities as far 

 as the extremity of Lewis. There are breeding-places on the Shiant Isles, in the Minch, Ascrib 

 Islands, in Loch Snizort, in the north of Skye, and similar groups of rocks on the western coast 

 of that island; in the islands of Canna, Bum, and Eigg; in Coll, Tyree, the Treshmish islands, 

 Iona, Staffa, and Mull ; at Lenaig in Islay ; and, finally, on Arran, south of which I have not 

 been able satisfactorily to trace any breeding-place. On the mainland it has been found nesting 

 in a number of places ranging from the island of Gigha, off the coast of Cantyre, to Handa on 

 the west coast of Sutherlandshire." Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown says that it is now rare in Handa, 

 though it used formerly to be plentiful. It is, however, not uncommon on other islands off the 

 west coast ; and in one place he found more than twenty pairs in a colony. It is not so abundant 

 on the west coast of Sutherland as it is in the north. In Ireland, as in Scotland, it is resident, 

 and is found in suitable localities all round the coast. 



It is, Professor Newton says, very numerous on both coasts of Greenland, and is said to 

 remain in the autumn longer than any other bird. It is also plentiful on Melville Peninsula, 

 but is more rarely seen in the Polar Sea. According to Faber, it is resident in Iceland, and 

 appears to be generally distributed around the coast during the breeding-season. In the Faeroes 

 it is, Captain Feilden says, " a resident, and tolerably abundant throughout the islands. In the 

 north isles, owing to the paucity of the population, and consequently fewer guns, it is more 

 abundant than in Suderoe." It breeds on the coast of Norway from the Hvaloer to the Bussian 

 frontier, and visits the southern fiords oftener in the summer than in the winter, and is seen off 

 Christiania not unfrequently in September and October. Nilsson says that during the summer 

 it inhabits the coasts and small islands of Sweden, both in the Baltic and the North Sea, down to 

 Skane. It breeds off Kalmar Lan, Bornholm, Gottland, Sodermanland, Halland, Wadero, off 

 Skane, in several places off Halland, and the coast of Bohuslan. On the Finland coasts it is, 

 Dr. Palmen writes (Finl. Fogl. ii. p. 667), common at Schuretskaja and Sossnovetz, at Paufelofka, 

 and along the coasts of the White Sea. It breeds at Uleaborg, on Karlo, and is numerous off 



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Brahestad, and breeds at several places along the coast, as at Bjomeborg, the Aland Islands, 

 Korpo, &c. It is not common off Helsingfors, and is found sparingly off Nyland. It breeds in 

 pairs or colonies on the Onas coast, off Sibbo, at Aggskar, and Tunnholmen, near the Pellinge 

 lighthouse ; and Huitze found it most numerous on Kittilskar, and Truthall off Borga. In 

 Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya an allied but fairly distinguishable species (Uria mandti) is 

 found ; but I am informed by Mr. Collett that the present species only occurs on the coasts of 

 Norway. A Black Guillemot is met with off the northern coasts of Bussia, which is probably 

 Uria mandti; but not having had an opportunity of examining a specimen from there, I am 

 unable to state with certainty whether it really is that species or Uria grylle. In the Baltic Uria 

 grylle is the only Black Guillemot found ; and Borggreve says that it is of not rare occurrence 

 on the Baltic coasts of Germany, but cannot be looked on as a regular winter visitant. According 

 to Naumann it is met with in the winter on the coasts of Livonia, Prussia, Holstein, and 

 Schleswig, as also off the mouth of the Elbe and Heligoland. According to Collin it breeds in 

 Denmark, as, for instance, in Gjerrild Bay, on Hjelmen, aud Veiro, in which last locality Grill 

 lately found several pairs breeding ; and he also took eggs on Meilo, at Korshavn, on the 6th 



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