. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . may still be keptup by my readers, of the forms and features of the wildbirds of the wild waters, whose portraits in their turn Inow proceed to give. In other words, having completed,in the preceding volumes, the History of the British LandBirds, Waders, and others which pertain more or less to bothland and sea, I now enter upon that of those which maythe most strictly speaking be called sea-birds. Truly infollowing them, though only with the eye of the mind, weshall see the works of the Lord and His wonders in thedeep, The present spe
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . may still be keptup by my readers, of the forms and features of the wildbirds of the wild waters, whose portraits in their turn Inow proceed to give. In other words, having completed,in the preceding volumes, the History of the British LandBirds, Waders, and others which pertain more or less to bothland and sea, I now enter upon that of those which maythe most strictly speaking be called sea-birds. Truly infollowing them, though only with the eye of the mind, weshall see the works of the Lord and His wonders in thedeep, The present species is frequent in Greenland, and aboutHudsons Bay, in North America, from whence some indi-viduals advance as far south as the United States. In Europe, they occasionally make their way from NovaZembla, the Ferroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, and Holland,by the Straits of Gibraltar to Italy and Sicily; and in Africa,in like manner, are found along tlie northern shores. In afew instances the species is recorded to have occurred on thelakes of GUILLEMOT. 145 The Guillemot is ubiquitous on our coasts, being frequentfrom Burlington to Yarmouth Roads, and thence to Dorset-shire, and so on all round the island. This bird has occurred in Oxfordshire, the Hon. T. L. Powyshas informed me; one was killed on the Kiver Isis, at Sand-ford, below Oxford, in October, 1840. In the adjoining countyof Buckingham, one, a male, was caught in the River atFenny Stratford, on the 13th. of November, 1852, during theheavy floods which then prevailed; and there was another seenat Simpson the next day. In Scotland, they breed in vast numbers on the Island ofIlanda, as also in Sutherlandshire and elsewhere; so they doalso on the Fern Islands off the Northumbrian coasts, andat Flamborough Head, in Yorkshire. They are equally abundant in the Orkney and ShetlandIslands, and the Hebrides. So too in Ireland are theyplentiful on all parts of the coast. A few formerly bred on the cliffs at Hunstanto
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