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LITTLE AUK 
and though often chased, always saving itself by its skill in 
diving, which it did so incessantly that it spent more time 
below than above the surface. While moving through the 
clear green element its white wing spots were very con- 
spicuous ; it uttered at times its weak piping cry. Strangely 
enough, in September 1891, the same or another appeared 
at precisely the same place. 
The Black Guillemot breeds at various places on the 
east coast of Ireland, as Bray Head, Lambay, and some 
localities in Antrim. It has been seen at the Scar, where 
also it perhaps nests, but is a very rare visitor to the 
English side of the Irish Sea. As the Tystie it is a well- 
known inhabitant of Shetland, and is abundant in suitable 
localities in Orkney and the Hebrides. The species does 
not breed in England, nor, now at least, in Wales, and 
perhaps not on the east coast of Scotland. 
MERGULUS ALLE (Linn.). LITTLE AUK. 
The Little Auk is a rare straggler to the Isle of Man, 
mostly, no doubt, the victim of winter storms. Mr. Ker- 
mode says, without giving further data, that it has 1 been 
taken rarely at Douglas, Kamse)', and Castletown, between 
August and the end of January.' The former month would 
be an unusually early date for this species. Perhaps there 
has in some instances been confusion with young specimens 
of the Puffin. There is, however, a Little Auk in the Orris- 
dale collection; Mr. Crellin mentions (Y. L. 31., ii. 203) a 
specimen washed up dead in Peel Bay in December 1893 ; 
and Mr. H. S. Clarke has one which was taken on 22nd 
March 1901 (an unusually late date) in Douglas Harbour 
(both also recorded by Mr. Kermode). The latter is a 
