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which has rendered every exertion to naturalize them to any extent in- 
effectual. 
This species is very plentiful in Spain and Portugal, frequenting- the 
vineyards, especially in winter. Bechstein informs us that they have 
been found in Austria and Bohemia, where, however, they are, as with 
us, very rare in a wild state. Woody and mountainous countries, he 
adds, seem to please them more than the plains. Wheat and corn of 
all sorts, with the leaves of several plants, and insects in turn, furnish 
them with their food ; they never become so familiar as the quail, hut 
sufficiently so to breed in the aviary.* 
Why this should be called Guernsey Partridg-e we cannot imag-ine, 
since we are credibly informed it is very rare in that island. The 
common species breed there, but are scarce ; whether this ever bred 
there is uncertain, though they are known to breed in the island of 
Jersey. It is also found in various parts of Asia and Africa, and is 
called by the name of the Red-legged Partridge. 
GUILLEMOT {Uria^ Temminck.) — A genus of birds. 
GUILLEMOT ( Uria minor ^ Stephens.) 
Colymbus grylle, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 220. 1. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 584. — Uria Baltica 
et Grylloides, Brunn. p. 25. — Uria Grylle, Ind. Orn. 2. p. 797. 2. — Temm. 
2. p. 925. — Uria minor nigra, Columba groenlandica, Briss. 6. p. 76. 3. — lb. 
8vo. 2. p. 379. — -Baii, Syn. p. 121, 6. — Will. p. 245. — Cephus Grylle, Flem. 
Br. Anim. p. 135. — Le petit Guillemot, Buff. 9. p. 354. — Greenland Dove, or 
Sea Turtle, Albin, 2. t. 80. — Will. (Angl.) p. 326. t. 78. — Spotted Greenland 
Dove, Edw. Glean, t. 50. — Black Guillemot, Br. Zool. 2. No. 236. — Ib. fol. 138. 
t. H. 4. — Arct. Zool. 2. No. 437. — Lath. Syn. 6. p. 332. 3. — Lewiri’s Br. Birds, 
6. t. 221. — Wale. Syn. 1. t. 95 — Bull. Cat. Dorset, p. 17. — Spotted Guillemot, 
Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 83. 2. and 13. H. 4. — Mont. Diet. 
Provincial . — Tyste. Taiste. Tysty. Scraber. Puffinet. 
This species weighs fourteen ounces ; length near fourteen inches ; 
the bill is black, strait, slender ; inside of the mouth yellow-red ; the 
whole plumage is black, except some of the wing coverts and secondary 
quills, which are tipped with white ; legs red. Some are said to be 
found wholly black ; others spotted black and white ; and that the 
plumage is changed to white in winter. 
These birds are not frequent on the southern coasts, but are not 
uncommon in the north, on the Earn islands, and in Scotland in the 
Hebrides. We have seen it rarely on the coast of Wales, near Tenbeigh, 
where a few breed annually ; but no where else that we could find 
from thence to St. David’s. It lays one egg, of a dirty white, blotched 
with pale rust-colour, which is deposited under ground, or in some hole 
in the rocks. Frequent in Greenland, Hudson’s Bay, and other northern 
parts. 
GULDENHEAD.— A name for the Puffin. 
