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move with their young by easy stages southward to spend the 
winter. The author just quoted supplies a full and excellent 
account of the species, chiefly from observation at the Pam Is- 
lands, on the coast of Northumberland, one of its breeding-haunts. 
Mr. Laurence Edmonston gives an interesting notice of the young, 
and of the moulting, &c., of this bird and the razor-bill, as ob- 
served by him. at Zetland.* The Bishop of Norwich, in his 
f Familiar History of Birds/ treats very pleasingly of the guillemot 
at the South Stack, near Holyhead, one of its summer stations. 
Mr. Waterton devotes one of his agreeable essays (1st series, 
p. 153) to it, not only as observed in its breeding-haunt, 
but, when he was lowered down the rocks near Flamborough 
Head, to its nests, or rather to its eggs. Audubon (vol. iii. 
p. 143) descants very particularly on the loves of the guillemots > 
as witnessed by him during their migration, and graphically 
describes the species at the Murref Rocks, near Great Macatina 
Harbour : he mentions a boat returning thence, after a few hours' 
absence, to the ship in which he was, laden with 25,000 of 
their eggs. 
THE BRIDLED GUILLEMOT. 
Ringed Guillemot. 
Uria leucophthalmos, Faber. 
,, lacrymans , Yalenc. 
Has been obtained on the coast. 
Mr. R. Chute, of Blennerville (Kerry), shot one at Dingle.J 
Another was killed by a boating party off the Giant's Causeway 
* Wernerian Memoirs, vol, v. part i. p. 22. 
f This word reminds me of the name muir-eun (pronounced murr-yan) bestowed 
on this species at Horn Head, and the meaning of which, according to an Irish scho- 
lar, is simply sea-bird. Murre is the appellation by which the guillemot is known 
in Cork harbour (Mr. R. Warren, jun.), and the razorbill at Lambay. Frowl is 
said to be the name applied to the former bird in this island (Mr. R. J. Montgomery). 
1 I noticed the circumstance in the ‘Annals of Nat. Hist. 5 for 1848, vol. i. p. 62, 
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