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COMMON GUILLEMOT. 
suitable localities, stretching to the northern seas, 
but decreasing southward, and met with “ only as a 
straggler in the Mediterranean.” * It was also 
met with hy the arctic voyagers, far north in the 
arctic circle. Audubon writes that it is seldom 
found farther south than the entrance of the Bay of 
New York, and that countless numbers breed on 
the islands on the Labrador coast ; his boat returned 
from one excursion laden with two thousand five 
hundred eggs, of which he writes, “ they afford ex- 
cellent food, being highly nutritious and palatable, 
whether boiled, roasted, poached, or in omelets." 
In the adult bird, in breeding plumage, the 
head and neck are of a hair-brown, the feathers of 
a very close and smooth texture, and from each 
posterior angle of the eye they seem to separate and 
leave a deep distinct line ; the upper plumage is of 
a duller tint than the head, approaching nearly to 
clove-brown, some of the feathers on the mantle 
being tipped with a paler shade of colour; the 
secondaries have half an inch of their ends white, 
forming a bar across the wings, and are the only in- 
terruptions : the under parts, from the neck down- 
wards, are pure white, the feathers on the flanks 
being dashed with clove-brown on the outer edges ; 
the bill is greyish black, the inside of the mouth a 
rich saffron-yellow; legs and feet brownish black 
In the dress of the winter, the cheeks, chin, sides, 
and front of the neck, arc white ; a dark streak run- 
Prince of Oanino, 
