COltMON GUILLEMOT. 
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to resemble the adult at 
with blackish fringes to the feathers, those of the hinder part of 
Wack freckled with 
dusky chocolate-brown, the 
dofn'^^chc®? hair-like white 
down, cheeks white, streaked with black; under surface of 
tn P“''e white, the throat slightly freckled with dusky nnrmns 
vhSpSTn^"2mh°' duLy-brown, the fla.iL S a 
patch, and another white patch on each side of the rump 
Range in Great Britaln,_The Guillemot freiiuents the san e 
localities as the Razor-bill, but is more plentiful than the latter 
bird. It is foui^ breeding on all suitable cliffs throuo-hout the 
ie?fo?S’e^ one of the best-known 
‘^t?s ; Mr. Ussher says that, in Ireland, it 
oreeas in great colonies on the sea-cliffs usually in hn 
IndThtforms°”'' Th^^ Kazor-bill, but on more open ledges 
the cat TL R ^ f enumerated as in 
tne case of the Razor-bill, with the exception of Waterford. 
in amat nntf lslands.-The present species is found 
m great numbers in Iceland, and the Faeroe.s, and up to the 
^ Norway, and even to Bear Island. It breeds 
northern entorHdLhSt‘""'^ 
also found on the ^ ^ summer. Colonies are 
.he »os. “f ■■>«"», ,,„d 
where Mr Tait has fnnnJ ^'S ^le coast of Portugal, 
Islands off the mornh of tlt°&t T' 
breeds from New England dttTofbout dt N ? \ 
Atlantic it is found as far south astt N I nt m 
S'e pT-f Mediterranean.' the Guillemot of 
kno;S afVtS’''"Tf? a distinct species, and is 
separate this biriTr^^^^m sufficient evidence to 
bill seTma to 1^? ^ . At first sight the 
with the angle of appearing rather stouter, 
brown streaks mnr,^ genys more acute, and the flanks have the 
specimens, howevertTtL'"^ European 
' - j in the British Museum, I find certain 
