NATATORES. ALCADÆ,
BRTJNNICIFS « I L L E MOT,
T he T hick-billed Guillemot.
Uria Brunnichii, Brunniclçk' Brit. An. p. 'L34.
, , : ,, jEN Y N a ,H B rit. Y e r t , *
rtMrai>, Birds of Europe, ptrxjrii.
. *Vd. ' ■ - Guillemot a g ro s b'ec% Temm. Man. d’Ornitff. fiÉlâi; p. 924.
T his species'was first described by Brunmch, in bis Orni-
ihologia Borealis, page 27> species 109.,.unde? tbe name of
Uria Troiler the author having previously called" our common
Guillemot t/W^Lomvia. An alteratioff'of Ahe|tspe.dfic
term being thus rendered necessary, Colonel Sabine very
properly devoted this Guillemot to the memory of Brunnich
by .name, and some interesting remarks on the early history
u f Ihis’-spedies will be found in Colonel Sabine’s “ Memoir of
the Birds of Greenland,’1 published in the 12th volume of the
fp^nsacfiong of the LinUean Soeietyi; r
Bruni»l?si<Guill'emote/is: at once!distinguished, at any season
o f,th e ' year^t from oursCommpn Guillemot^ by the short-
Ifiess, .thevstbufness, angularity? and greater depth of its bill,
'.as. showil bytthe outlines^ o'fdhe beaks of both birds in the
pjfgncjjte attached? t<filh£sa|ticl%*and our present subject has
Thicl^billed Guillemot in reference to this
Ipfchliarity. -O
Mk W. Thompson 6fi Belfast, in his published Report on
the1 \f»$|ibrata of Ireland, mentions’ that the Uria Brun-
imcjiii isj/frdtlc>e;^u-Jr^ Colonel® Sabine as seen ’’by him in the
month ofi 'J||ly;Un .the Kerry, where it may be presumed
tbfbrOed1.' ’tCapitaih Jam eh CuRoss, in his last natural
hi^fenly^appe'iEdix, published in 188©, sa^s he met with this
tef:ebie=: at-HI^t^thc most, itopthern of the'Shetland Islands,
and i|LsdVeral parts ,ofil'Scot|a®d',;( and Professor Macgillivray
|rOfers, iif;?fch‘e..’S;ecdhd ’volume of hisi Manual, to a specimen
noy^foseryed'iWth.e Edinburgh University, %hi®h was rev
iv e d with other skins from.Orkney.
- Professor’l^illsoh includes ‘ this species in his Fauna of
Scandinavia, and'cbnsiders it' th’e Alca pica of Fabricius ; it
J5& found also’ " ah the* Faroe Islands and Iceland, at Spitz-
» bergeri,' Greenland, Davis* Straits, Baffin’s Bay, and the
Arctic sea&. . Southward in Europe, one example, a young
bird, according M. Temminck has been killed in the
.vicinity'of Naples, and is there preserved.
In its habits and food, as far as known, Brunnich’s Guillemot
dlresrhot differ from the Common Guillemot, and I am
not aware of distinctions in the eggs, if any exist.
A specimen before me, brought from Iceland by Mr.
Proctor, agrees exactly witli Colonel Sabine’s description of