brunnich’s guillemot. 2J 7 
ning behind the eye, and the colour of the head and 
upper parts of the neck assimilates more nearly in 
tint with that of the back, and looses in part the 
agreeable brownish tinge and soft feel perceived at 
other times. In the young, before the appearance of 
feathers, the dark parts of the adult, in summer, are 
of a dull greyish black, the hair-like down having 
white tips, the under parts white. 
Brunnich’s Guillemot, Uria Brunnichii, Sa- 
bine . — U. Brunnichii, Flem. — Guillemot a gros 
bee, Temm. — Brunnich , or Thick-billed Guille- 
mot of British authors. — This species rests its claim 
as British on a very few specimens. It was seen by 
Capt. Sabine in July on the coast of Kerry, was met 
with in Shetland by Capt. James C. Ross, and there 
is a specimen in the Edinburgh Museum said to 
have been received from Orkney. On the Euro- 
pean coasts it is also very rare, and ranges north- 
ward to the Feroe Islands and Iceland, Baffin’s Bay, 
and the Arctic Seas. Our own specimen was pro- 
cured from a whaler, and was, we believe, killed in 
Davis Straits. On the American shores it appears 
also to be rare ; Audubon “ never met with it on 
the coasts of our midland districts," neither did he 
find it breeding on his excursion to Labrador. His 
specimens were procured from Eastport on Maine 
and forwarded in ice to him ; a useful hint, for we 
believe that many of the Arctic species of birds, 
which it would be of advantage to examine fresh, 
