Briinnich's Guillemot is a northern bird, and breeds in
countless thousands in Greenland, Spitsbergen, and
Novaya Zcinlya, wintering on the north coast and islands
of Siberia. In Iceland it is said to be very local. This
Guillemot visits the coasts of Norway in winter only:
one is said to have been obtained near Flensborg, and
two others on the coast of Denmark; the most southerly
occurrence of which I can find any record is that of a
specimen taken near Havre. During the memorable
" rush" of Little Auks to our eastern coasts in the
winter of 1894-1895, several of Briinnich's Guillemot
were met with, and, through the courtesy of their
respective possessors, I had the opportunity of examining
four of them. The first of these I heard of from Doctor
Bendelack llewetson, as having been obtained at Scarborough
on the 7th of December, 1894. This bird was
shot near the North Pier, and the shooter not caring to
retrieve it, the bird was seized upon by a boy and
taken by him whilst still warm to Mr. W. J. Clarke, of
44 Huntriss Row, Scarborough, who most obligingly
sent it to me stuffed, for examination, with the following
particulars:—Male by dissection. Total length 18 in.,
expanse of wings 24^ in., wing from carpal joint to tip
slightly over 8 in. This specimen was exhibited by
Mr. J. E. Harting at a meeting of the Linnean Society
in January 1895. The next in chronological order was
obtained near Guyhirn, Cambs., about January 12th,
1895, and sent into Bury St. Edmunds on 16th, where
it was seen in flesh by the wife of my informant, the
Rev. Julian Tuck, of Tostock Rectory, who purchased
the bird, and was good enough to forward it stuffed to