. British oology : being illustrations of the eggs of British birds, with figures of each species, as far as practicable, drawn and coloured from nature : accompanied by descriptions of the materials and situation of their nests, number of eggs, &c. . .Ora>,:r ff>. Sfmc ii, PtC. /Tetrifs, <i»x<:i A///, a:A//. J/i/r/u-7/ GRYLLE. (latham.) Black Guillemot, Tyste. The seas of Shetland are everywhere enlivened by thesepretty birds; great numbers of them breeding amongst therocks round which they flow; they likewise breed in theOrkneys and Western isles of Scotland, but are n
. British oology : being illustrations of the eggs of British birds, with figures of each species, as far as practicable, drawn and coloured from nature : accompanied by descriptions of the materials and situation of their nests, number of eggs, &c. . .Ora>,:r ff>. Sfmc ii, PtC. /Tetrifs, <i»x<:i A///, a:A//. J/i/r/u-7/ GRYLLE. (latham.) Black Guillemot, Tyste. The seas of Shetland are everywhere enlivened by thesepretty birds; great numbers of them breeding amongst therocks round which they flow; they likewise breed in theOrkneys and Western isles of Scotland, but are not, to myknowledge, met with farther south ; though Montagu says,that a few of them breed in Wales, near Tenbigh; theymake no nest, but lay their eggs, which are always two innumber, in such situations as the place affords. On some ofthe islands which present a steep precipice to the sea, theymake use of holes or crevices in the rocks in which the eggsare laid at various depths, from one or two feet (which isthe most usual), to three or four; on other islands less pre-cipitous, it deposits them in cavities under or between frag-ments of rock and large stones, with which the beach isstrewed ; in one situation several pairs rear their young one
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