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which has rendered every exertion to naturalize them to any extent in- 

 effectual. 



This species is very plentiful in Spain and Portugal, frequenting the 

 vineyards, especially in winter. Bechstein informs us that they have 

 been found in Austria and Bohemia, where, however, they are, as with 

 us, very rare in a wild state. Woody and mountainous countries, he 

 adds, seem to please them more than the plains. Wheat and corn of 

 all sorts, with the leaves of several plants, and insects in turn, furnish 

 them with their food ; they never become so familiar as the quail, but 

 sufficiently so to breed in the aviary.* 



Why this should be called Guernsey Partridge we cannot imagine, 

 since we are credibly informed it is very rare in that island. The 

 common species breed there, but are scarce ; whether this ever bred 

 there is uncertain, though they are known to breed in the island of 

 Jersey. It is also found in various parts of Asia and Africa, and is 

 called by the name of the Red-legged Partridge. 



GUILLEMOT (Uria, Temminck!) — A genus of birds. 



GUILLEMOT ( Uria minor, Stephens.) 



Colymbus grylle, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 220. 1.— Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 584.— Uria Baltica 

 et Grylloides, Brunn. p. 25. — Uria Grylle, Ind. Orn. 2. p. 797. 2. — Temm. 

 2. p. 925. — Uria minor nigra, Columba groenlandica, Brisa. 6. p. 76. 3. — lb. 



8vo. 2. p. 379 Raii, Syn. p. 121, 6.— Will. p. 245.— Cephus Grylle, Flem. 



Br. Anim. p. 135. — Le petit Guillemot, Buff. 9. p. 354. — Greenland Dove, or 

 Sea Turtle, Albin, 2. t. 80.— Will. (Angl.) p. 326. t. 78.— Spotted Greenland 

 Dove, Edw. Glean, t. 50.— Black Guillemot, Br. Zool. 2. No. 236.— Ib. fol. 138. 

 t. H. 4.— Arct. Zool. 2. No. 437.— Lath. Syn. 6. p. 332. 3.— Lewin's Br. Birds, 

 6. t. 221.— Wale. Syn. 1. t. 95 — Pu.lt. Cat. Dorset, p. 17.— Spotted Guillemot, 

 Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 83. 2. and 13. H. 4.— Mont. Diet. 



Provincial. — Tyste. Taiste. Tysty. Scraber. Puffinet. 



This species weighs fourteen ounces ; length near fourteen inches ; 

 the bill is black, strait, slender ; inside of the mouth yellow-red ; the 

 whole plumage is black, except some of the wing coverts and secondary 

 quills, which are tipped with white ; legs red. Some are said to be 

 found wholly black ; others spotted black and white ; and that the 

 plumage is changed to white in winter. 



These birds are not frequent on the southern coasts, but are not 

 uncommon in the north, on the Farn islands, and in Scotland in the 

 Hebrides. We have seen it rarely on the coast of Wales, near Tenbeigh, 

 where a few breed annually ; but no where else that we could find 

 from thence to St. David's. It lays one egg, of a dirty white, blotched 

 with pale rust-colour, which is deposited under ground, or in some hole 

 in the rocks. Frequent in Greenland, Hudson's Bay, and other northern 

 parts. 



GULDENHEAD. — A name for the Puffin. 



