BLACK GUILLEMOT 281 
Douglas shore. Like the Razorbill, but in less numbers, 
it is often cast ashore upon our coasts. 
Mr. Kermode, in Y. LZ. M, iii. 543, describes his experi- 
ences with a captive specimen, which was readily tamed, 
and after being set free returned voluntarily to its 
master. 
The Guillemot breeds at Lambay and Rathlin, at the 
Scar, the Ross, and St. Bees, and at various points in 
Carnarvonshire and Anglesea. Outside the breeding season 
it is met with in the Irish Sea in a somewhat irregular 
degree of abundance, the greater portion of the summer 
birds being supposed to move southward in the coldest 
weather. It breeds abundantly on the northern and western 
isles of Scotland, as in most suitable localities along the 
British coasts. 
URIA GRYLLE (Uinn.). BLACK GUILLEMOT. 
Sea PIGEON (so named also in Ireland and on the North American 
sea-coast). 
Dr. Crellin reported this species to Mr. A. G. More as 
breeding in small numbers in the Isle of Man. ‘I have 
ascertained, he writes on 19th July 1862, ‘that the Black 
Guillemot breeds here, though not in large numbers like 
the common bird of that name... . I saw only five birds, 
two pairs and an odd one; which latter I killed after taking 
some trouble.’ It had previously been observed here by 
Sir W. Jardine, who had ‘no doubt that it was at the time 
breeding, and notices of its residence here have since found 
their way into most standard works. 
The assertion sometimes made of a decrease in numbers 
of this pretty and interesting sea-bird, it would, perhaps, be 
difficult to substantiate. In the localities with which I am 
