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this method repeatedly with success. It requires 

 more patience and caution in shooting these birds 

 than any others I know of excepting the Northern 

 Diver ; for in general they select such a place for 

 the site of incubation as from its natural situation 

 will admit of their perceiving any one that ap- 

 proaches j and very often after creeping a great 

 distance on your hands and knees towards a lake, 

 believing yourself unobserved, on arriving there 

 you have the mortification to find the object of 

 your search is on the side exactly opposite to 

 you. 



XJria Troile, Lath. Willock. Guillemot. — 

 This bird is very numerous in both countries : in 

 Shetland it is known by the name of Kuggoy, 

 and in Orkney by that of Backie. In the breed- 

 ing season I have seen them sitting on the shelves 

 of the rocks close together, in lines of equal 

 length. The young birds take the water immedi- 

 ately after they leave the shell ; I have seen them 

 repeatedly in their downy state swimming in 

 company with the old birds. 



Uria Grylle, Lath. Tystie*. Black Guil- 

 lemot. Greenland Dove. — The Black Guillemot 

 is very plentiful amongst the islands of Orkney 



