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BRIDLED GUILLEMOT. 
in somo parts of its plumage, it breeds exclusively 
with its own kindred, though in company with 
U. troile and Irunichii, and is very local in distribu- 
tion. In Iceland and the adjoining islands, where 
it seems to he found in greatest abundance, it is 
known by a different provincial name, and the na- 
tives at once distingush it, and can separate not only 
the birds, but also the eggs, from those of the com- 
mon species. 
The claim of the Bridled Guillemot to a place in 
the British list rests on the authority of Mr. Gould, 
who states, in his Birds of Europe, that it breeds 
on the coast of Wales; while Mr. Yarrell writes, 
that since Mr. Gould's description, it has been taken 
on the coasts of both Yorkshire and Durham. We 
have never had the good fortune to meet with it in 
Scotland, nor do the fishermen or inhabitants near 
the breeding-places — almost always very correct in 
their distinctions of the creatures frequenting their 
vicinity — know it. It w'as procured by Mr. Procter 
in his excursion to Iceland, and Nilsson includes it 
as a variety in his Fauna of Scandinavia. 
Bill weaker, and more slender than that of the 
common Guillemot ; the head and neck dark olive- 
brown, intermediate in shade between that of the 
common and Brunnich's, the eye surrounded with 
a ring of white, which is prolonged in a narrow 
line below tho separation of the auriculars ; the 
back, wings, and tail are a dark greyish brown, the 
secondaries narrowly tipped with white, all the un- 
der parts white. 
