FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. 
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ALCADM. 
PLATE CCLXXX. 
FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. 
URIA TROILE. 
The Foolish Guillemot is a periodical visitant in this 
country. Wherever the coast is rocky and shelving it may 
be found breeding in great numbers in the summer months, 
and during the winter the birds that breed in more north¬ 
ern latitudes come to us for the purpose of passing the 
winter in our comparatively mild climate ; it is, consequently, 
both a summer and a winter visitant, according to circum¬ 
stances. 
The present species is very widely distributed, we may say 
over all northern countries as high as the seventieth degree. 
In Europe it descends as far south as the northern coast of 
France, it is common all along the coast of Norway, the 
Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, and Ferro isles, and the south¬ 
ern coast of Iceland. In Greenland the species is not met 
with. 
During the inclement season the Foolish Guillemot is 
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