BRTJNNICH'S GUILLEMOT.
THICK-RILLED GUILLEMOT. LARGE-BILLED GUILLEMOT.
Una Brunnkhii, FLEMING. JRNTNS.
«< " . GOULD. TEMMINCK.
Uria— ? Btuuntthu-—Of Brunnich.
T H E present species was first distinguished as a distinct one by
Brunnich, and subsequently named after that naturalist by (lolonel
Sabine.
In Europe these birds breed in vast numbers in Iceland, and are
also met with at the same time in the Ferroe Islands, Spitzbergen,
Norway, and Sweden, and thence northwards throughout the Arctic
regions. In Italy one was shot at Naples.
In America it occurs in and about Greenland, Baffin's Bay, Davis'
Straits, and other parts of the northern coast.
I n Cornwall one was obtained at Rosemullion Head, by Mr. George
< 'opeland.
Tn Scotland, several have occurred in different places.
In Ireland, Colonel Sabine noticed it on the coast of the county of
Kerry.
I n Orkney, one was shot several years ago, and a specimen was
also seen off Unst, one of the Shetland Islands, b y Captain Sir James
C. Boss, R.N.
The eggs of this species are, like those of the common kind, most
variable in colour. The ground tint is greenish blue. They a r e , Mr.
Hewitson observes, less fantastically streaked and blotted than those
of the other, but sometimes very regularly and beautifully marked all
over with small spots.
Male; bill, black, the base of the upper mandible nearly white.
I t is somewhat thicker than in the other closely-allied species, but
' i l DOCO piu' is all that can be attached to its character, sufficient