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LIST OP NORFOLK BIRDS. 
229. Eazorbill {Alca tordd). 
For about eight months of the year the Razorbill is fairly 
common in the tideway of the o^jen sea, though probably always 
less abundant than the Guillemot. It seldom, however, apjjroaches 
the shore or harbours. 
230. Common Guillemot {Alca ttoile). 
Occasionally large numbers of this and the jireceding species 
are washed ashore exhausted or dead after bad weather this Avas 
notably the case on one occasion in IMay, 1856, when the whole 
shore, from Mundesley to Cromer, and doubtless farther still, Avas 
lined with their dead bodies. Gulls are sometimes found under 
similar circumstances, but in fewer numbers. On the 23rd of 
March, 1883, after a series of severe gales from the north and east, 
in addition to Puffins and Razorbills, I found washed up on the 
shore at Cromer a Red-throated Diver and a Kittiwake. — S. 
[9. Ringed Guillemot {Alca lacrymans). 
Has been killed thrice at least at Yarmouth, twice at Cromer, 
and once at Cley : this latter, obtained in November, 
1885, was a very immature bird, with the beak not fully 
grown. It is regarded by most Ornithologists as a 
variety, but no example has ever been met with with 
the ring or bridle incomplete, — and this in spite of 
proved hybridism with the Common Guillemot. — G.] 
231. Bl.\ck Guillemot {Uria grylle). 
In the winter of 1866-7, Mr. T. E. Gunn recognised two Black 
Guillemots which had been killed off Wells. About the same 
time I obtained an example from Blakeney, and in the following 
winter heard of another at Yarmouth (Trans. Norfolk and Norwich 
Nat. Soc. vol. iii. p. 135). These were in immature plumage, but 
an adult was washed a.shore, with other starved Alcuka, in March, 
1875, at Caistor, as noted hy Mr. Stevenson (Trans. Norfolk and 
Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. ii. p. 207). — G. 
232. Little Auk {Mergulus alle). 
This bird of the ocean is not rare in Avinter, and has been often 
found inland. What is far more remarkable is that it has occurred 
three times in breeding plumage, — at Wells (Stevenson, ‘ Zoologist,’ 
1857, p. 5758), near Lynn (‘Zoologist,’ 1872, 3228), and at 
Surlingham {l.c .), — and once if not oftener in a state of change. 
