. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . ad, it appears from Mr. HardysMS. Notes that in 1857 two or three pairs frequented therocky precipices there, and that it formerly nested at Tookeyand Horsecastle Coves, which are situated to the south of theHead. He also mentions that some time before the above 1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. i. p. 182. 304 THE BLACK GUILLEMOT. date a Mr. Pratt, son of a lawyer in Berwick, shot two Turtle Doves ^ at St. Abbs Head, and t
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . ad, it appears from Mr. HardysMS. Notes that in 1857 two or three pairs frequented therocky precipices there, and that it formerly nested at Tookeyand Horsecastle Coves, which are situated to the south of theHead. He also mentions that some time before the above 1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. i. p. 182. 304 THE BLACK GUILLEMOT. date a Mr. Pratt, son of a lawyer in Berwick, shot two Turtle Doves ^ at St. Abbs Head, and there have not beenany seen there since. The Black Guillemot is now seldom seen off the coastof Berwickshire. Mr. Gray, writing in 1883, says : A fewpairs still linger in the vicinity of the Isle of May, in theFirth of Forth, where an occasional nest may yet be taken. ^It is much smaller than the Common Guillemot, which itresembles in its habits, being about the size of a Puffin. Insummer the plumage is wholly black, with the exception ofa white patch on the wing, and in winter it is more or lessmottled with white. 1 Black Guillemots. 2 Hist. Ber. Nat. aub, vol. x. p. PYGOPODES. ( 305 ) ALCIDJE. THE LITTLE AUK. COMMON ROTCHE, LITTLE ROTCHE, LITTLE GUILLEMOT,SEA DOVE. Mergulus alle. The time and sessouti bitter, cauld and paleThay schort dayis, that clerkis clepe Bnimale :Quhen brym. blastis of the northyn artOuerquheimyt had Neptunus iii his all to schaik the levis of the treis,The rageand stormes ouerwelterand wally ran rede on spate with wattir burnis harlis all tha^-e ba?ikis doun. Gawin Douglas, Description of Winter, 1512. After severe storms this winter visitor to our coasts isoccasionally found far inland in a wasted condition, beingdriven there by the violence of the wind. Writing underdate the 27th of January 1860, Mr. Hardy mentions in hisMS. Notes that one of the Penmanshiel foresters had broughtto him a Little Auk which he had fo
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