COMMON GUILLEMOT. 
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licity to liis researches than these pages can,—confirms 
his previous opinion, expressed in a paper read at the 
British Association, and printed in the “ Zoologist/" that 
the ringed guillemot lias no claim whatever to be con¬ 
sidered a distinct species. He has this summer found 
the ringed birds north of the White Sea, just in the 
same proportion in number to the others, as he had 
formerly done in Scotland, Shetland, and the Feroe 
Islands, and has himself taken the eggs, exhibiting all 
the varieties of the plate, and in several places from 
under the very bird. 
