/y. a . 
Of course, even in a very mild winter, no great number of birds 
such as I have just been mentioning are found. No one notices 
them except the collector, and he only a stray one or two now 
and then. Some other instances of such wandering it might be 
well to speak of. In January, 1880 , a friend of mine was skat¬ 
ing on a pond where a number of men were engaged in cutting 
ice, when he noticed a curious looking bird sitting on the edge 
of the ice in a rather dazed manner, not heeding at all the 
presence of the workmen. He went for a gun, returned, and 
shot the bird, which I ascertained was a Black Guillemot . There 
had been a severe northeast storm the day before, and the poor 
creature had evidently got lost. 
BuliN.O.O, 8 , July. 1883, p, t . 
\ 
Birds of Bristol County, Mass, 
F.W. Andros. 
Cepphus grylle (Linn.), Black Guillemot. 
Winter visitant, not common. 
O.&o. XII. Sept. 1887 p.137 
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