33° GUILLEMOT. 



feathers : the head, neck, back, wings, and tail, deep moufe- ' 

 colour : tips of the lefier quills white : under parts of the body 

 the fame : fides under the wings marked with dufky lines : juft 

 above the thighs are fome long feathers, that curl over them : 

 legs duiky. 



Mr. Brunnich * mentions a variety, having a broader and 

 fhorter bill, and the margins of it yellow, even in dried fpeci- 

 mens ; and Midler \ another, with a ring of white round the eyes, 

 and a line of the fame behind them. 

 Place and This bird is fufficiently plenty on the Englijh coafls in the 



Manners. fummer feafon, when it is found fometimes in aftonifhing num- 

 bers on our rocky cliffs; at which time our gunners frequently 

 go, in order to perfect themfelves in the art of fhooting flying ■, for 

 which purpofe none are more fit than thefe filly birds, as they will 

 fee their companions killed one after another, without doing 

 more than making a circuit, and alighting in the fame, place, to 

 be fhot at in turn. Along with thefe are the Auks, and both 

 of them are indifcriminately called TViUocks by the fportfmen. 

 They lay one large egg, more than three inches in length, 

 of a blueifh white, or pale fea-green, and fo irregularly fpotted 

 and ftreaked with black, that no two are alike. They are 

 faid to continue in the Orknies the whole year J. The chief 

 places they are known to breed in are, the uninhabited ifie 

 of Priejlholm, near the ille of Anglejey : on a rock called Godreve, 

 not far from St, Ives in Cornwall : the Farn IJles, near the coaft of 

 Northumberland: and the cliffs about Scarborough in York/hire §• 

 They are alfo found in moft of the northern parts of Europe, 



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