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A GROUP OF GUILLEMOTS. 
COMMON GUILLEMOT. 
The Foolish Guillemot {Uria Troile)^ sometimes called 
the Common Guillemot ; the Lum, Lungy, Lami or Lavy ; 
the Marrot, Murre, jVIurse ; the Sea Hen, Scout, Skiddaw, 
Scuttock ; the Tinkerseer, or Willock. 
The Black Guillemot ( U. grylU\ also called the Green- 
land Dove, or Doveky; the Little or Spotted Guillemot ; the 
Puffinet; the Sea Turtle ; the Tystie, or Tystey. 
The Bridled Guillemot (JJ, lachrymans)^ sometimes 
called the Einged or Eing-eyed Guillemot, 
Brunnich's Guillemot ( tf, Brunnichii), 
We have here the British members of the genus Uria^ 
formed by the Guillemots, which are active and lively birds, 
inhabiting the northern seas. They form no nests, but de- 
posit their large pear-shaped egg?, on the bare surface of 
rocks, and there their young crouch, fed by the old birds 
until they are sufficiently fledged to take to the water, and 
begin to forage for themselves. Their eggs afford good 
eating, but the flesh of both old and young is rank and 
unpleasant. 
The common Guillemot, it will be seen, is a bird with 
many an alias to its name : what they all mean we cannot 
pretend to explain. It has a stout, black, sharp-pointed, and 
somewhat decurved bill, not unlke that of the Eaven. It 
usually measures about seventeen inches in length. The 
plumage is greyish black above ; the sides of the head and 
