BRUNNICIl's GUILLEMOT. 
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bitants as three species, and had different names accordingly be- 
stowed upon them. The eggs of each, too, were pointed out 
among a number collected. The bridled guillemot is said to be 
abundant at Spitzbergen. 
Little is known of this bird as a British, and still less as an 
Irish species. We must look particularly to such naturalists as 
visit the breeding-places of guillemots to supply us with informa- 
tion, both respecting the U. lacrymans and U. Brunnichii .* 
BBUNNICH'S GUILLEMOT. 
Thick-billed Guillemot. 
Uria Brunnichii, Sabine. 
Is believed to have been seen on the coast. 
The only record of this bird as Irish appears in Ainsworth's 
description of the caves of Ballybunian on the coast of Kerry ^ 
to which Colonel Sabine contributed a brief note on the birds he 
had met with there in the month of July 1833. This species is 
simply stated to have been “recognized in flight." Erom almost 
any other person such a note would be of little value; but it will 
be remembered that to Colonel (then Captain) Sabine, ornitholo- 
gists are indebted for placing the species, as such, on a fixed 
basis in his f Memoir on the Birds of Greenland/ published in 
the Transactions of the Linnsean Society (vol. xii. p. 538). It 
was remarked by him to be in abundance in Davis's Straits, and 
occasionally in Baffin's Bay. 
Dr. Harvey, of Cork, about the 1st of Eebruary, 1850, re- 
ceived a guillemot, from Youghal, that he is inclined to consider 
U. Brunnichii. His description of it is : — 
“ Length of bill from forehead 2 inches, from rictus 2f- inches. Circumference 
of bill at angle (which is farther forward than in the common species), 1^ inch ; that 
* Mr. R. J. Montgomery suspects that either of these may he found at the island 
of Lamhay, off the Dublin coast, as the people there speak of a second kind_ closely 
resembling the common guillemot (June 1849). 
