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BRUNNICH’S GUILLEMOT.

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Tuis species may at all times be distinguished from the Uria Troile, with which it has been often confounded,

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by the stout and abbreviated form of the bill, and by the much shorter space between the nasal orifices

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and the tip. We are only able to give a figure of it in its supposed summer plumage, which resembles
that of the Common Guillemot, with this exception, that the dark parts are deeper and much more in-
tense in colour, verging indeed towards sooty black. Although we have no authentic account of its having

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been captured in the British Islands, we feel convinced that it must occasionally occur along our northern
shores. It is very abundant in Greenland, Spitzbergen, Davis’s Straits, and Baffin’s Bay; it doubtless also
tenants the rugged shores of Norway, Lapland, &c. ; and its habits in all probability closely resemble those
of its congeners.
Crown of the head and all the upper surface glossy brownish black ; sides of the face and front of the neck
| dark sooty black; tips of the secondaries and all the under surface white; bill black ; gape bright yellow ;
feet greenish.
Our figure is of the natural size.

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