•ROTCHE.
V CARET 1. BACH, (IK THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
LITTLE AUK. ICE BIRD. SMALL BLACK AND WHITE DIV ER.
COMMON ROTCHE.
Una minor, BRISSON.
Aha aJU, PENNANT. MONTAGU.
" " BEWICK.
Una alh, TEMMINCK.
Afergulus melanoleiKH, FLEMING. SELBY.
" " JENTNS.
Una—A bird supposed to be the Guillemot. Minor—Lesser.
T U M I birds are of true oceanic habits, although, ;IS will be seen,
they have in very numerous instances occurred far inland.
They are abundant in Greenland, where they breed, and in different
parts of North America, Baffin's Bay, Davis' Straits, and on other parts
of the Continent, on to New Jersey, and several parts of the United
States: also in Europe, at Iceland, in the Island of Grimsey. So, too,
in Nova Zembla and Spitsbergen. Captain Beechy, R.N., in the
account of his voyage to the North Pole, writes thus of them, in
describing the scenery of Magdalen Bay, on the west of the island.
—'At the head of the Bay there is a high pyramidal mountain of
granite, termed Rodge Hill, from the myriads of birds, the Rorche,
that frequent its base, and which appeared to prefer its environs to
any part of the harbour.' lie adds, ' t h e y are so numerous, that we
have often seen an uninterrupted line of them extending full half
way over the Bay. or to a distance of more than three miles. This
column, on the average, might have been about six yards broad, and
as many deep. There must have been nearly four millions of birds
on the wing at one time.'