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last year. Mr. Kermode says that the Razorbill appears 
in Ramsey Bay about 16th April; Mr. Graves has noted 
it at ‘The Ladder’ in pairs on 23rd March. It leaves its 
western breeding places about the end of July. 
The Razorbill is usually a very silent bird, but utters 
occasionally, when disturbed, a low murmuring croak. 
The Razorbill breeds on Lambay and Ireland’s Eye, on the 
Gobbins and Rathlin, and on the Scar Rock and the Ross, 
Kirkcudbrightshire; on the English north-western coast 
only at St. Bees. It nests also on Bardsey, Orme’s Head, 
and elsewhere in Carnarvonshire and Anglesea. It is a 
common summer resident in the Scottish isles. It is an 
Atlantic species, and breeds on most rocky shores of 
Britain, 
LOMVIA TROILE (Linn.). COMMON 
GUILLEMOT. 
Manx, *Stronnag (not in dictionaries), perhaps from Stroin= 
nose, in allusion to its pointed beak ; or its derivative Stron, 
Stronneraght=snuffle, from the murmuring cry. 
‘About the rocks of the Calf, as we are told by Bishop 
Wilson, ‘an incredible number of all sorts of sea-fowl 
breed, shelter, and bask themselves in summer, and make 
a sight so agreeable, that Governor Chaloner was at the 
pains to have a sketch of one of these shelving rocks, with 
a vast variety of birds sitting upon it, taken and printed 
with his account of the isle,’ 
And Townley enthusiastically exclaims: ‘There is such 
a mixed multitude of birds as no other spot in the universe 
can exhibit, for there are numbers so astonishingly great 
that I do not know how to liken them, but by scriptural 
