. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . Hol-land, and England, seeming as it were to fill up the place ofthose which have left their native shores for still milderclimates. The inhabitants of Kamtschatka kill the Murres in greatnumbers for the sake of their flesh, though it is said to betough and ill tasting, but more especially for their skins, ofwhich, as of other fowls, they make garments; but the eggsare everywhere accounted as a delicacy. This bird is calledby the Welsh Guillem, and in the southern parts of EnglandWillock. During very recent years it has been d
. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . Hol-land, and England, seeming as it were to fill up the place ofthose which have left their native shores for still milderclimates. The inhabitants of Kamtschatka kill the Murres in greatnumbers for the sake of their flesh, though it is said to betough and ill tasting, but more especially for their skins, ofwhich, as of other fowls, they make garments; but the eggsare everywhere accounted as a delicacy. This bird is calledby the Welsh Guillem, and in the southern parts of EnglandWillock. During very recent years it has been discovered that the Com-mon Guillemot is a decidedly uncommon bird on our shores, ifnot quite rare ; it has been confused with Brunnichs, which it veryclosely resembles. The present species is credited with breedingfrom the Bay of Fundy to the Frozen Ocean; but Mr. Hagerupconsiders it rare in south Greenland, while Kumlien reported find-ing Guillemots breeding by thousands on the Greenland coast. A few of these birds are found off the New England shores BRUNNICHS MURRE. THICK-BILLED GUILLEMOT. FOOLISH Uria LOMVIA. Char. Upper parts sooty black, deeper on head and nape ; sides ofhead and neck, chin, and throat brown ; wing with small patch of white ;bill short and thick, and of black color. Length about i8 inches; femalesomewhat smaller. In winter the throat becomes white. Young birdsare similar to the adult in winter plumage. Nest. On the bare rocks of an ocean cliff. ^gS- I; very variable in color, markings, and size; average X This is the Common Guillemot of our shores, and is rather abun-dant in some localities, breeding from the Gulf of St. Lawrence tothe Frozen Ocean, and wintering from south Greenland to NewJersey. Some European naturalists consider this l>ird a varietyof U. troile, and not entitled to specific rank; but the American VOL. II. — 26 402 DIVERS. School of ornithologists are nothing if not separatists, and bys
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