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appear from the shores of Britain, and are seen in winter on 
the coasts of the Baltic, Holland, France, along the borders 
of the Atlantic, and as far southward as Italy. Many of the 
young, as well as old birds of this species, also, bred in colder 
latitudes, migrate in winter along the coasts of Norway, Hol- 
land, and England, seeming as it were to fill up the place of 
those which have left their native shores for still milder 
climates. 
Ihe inhabitants of Kamtschatka kill the Murres in great 
numbers for the sake of their flesh, though it is said to be 
tough and ill tasting, but more especially for their skins, of 
which, as of other fowls, they make garments ; but the eggs 
are everywhere accounted as a delicacy. This bird is called 
by the Welsh Guillem, and in the southern parts of England 
Willock. 
During very recent years it has been discovered that the “ Com- 
mon” Guillemot is a decidedly uncommon bird on our shores, if 
not quite rare ; it has been confused with Briinnich’s, which it very 
closely resembles. The present species is credited with breeding 
from the Bay of Fundy to the Frozen Ocean; but Mr. Hagerup 
considers it rare in south Greenland, while Kumlien reported find- 
ing Guillemots “ breeding by thousands ” on the Greenland coast. 
A few of these birds are found off the New England shores in 
winter. 
