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Kingdom; but more to the southward nearly all its smaller settlements have been rendered utterly desolate by the wanton and cruel destruction of their tenants during the breeding See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season, and even the inhabitants of those which were more crowded had become so thinned that, but for the intervention of the Sea Birds Preservation See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act (32 & 33 Vict. cap. 17), which provided under See also:

PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty for the safety of this and certain other See also:

SPECIES

species at the time of See also:

YEAR

year when they were most exposed to danger, they would un- questionably by this time have been exterminated so far as See also:

England is concerned. See also:

PART

Part of the guillemot's See also:

HISTORY

history is still little understood. We know that it arrives at its wonted breeding stations on its accustomed See also:

day in See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring, that it remains there till, towards the end of the summer, its See also:

young are hatched and able, as they soon are, to encounter the perils of a seafaring See also:

LIFE

life, when away go all, parents and progeny. After that time it commonly happens that a few examples are occasionally met with in bays and shallow See also:

WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters. Tempestuous See also:

WEATHER (O. Eng. weder; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Du. weder, Dan. veir, Icel. ve8r, and Ger. Wetter and Gewitter, storm; the root is wa- to blow, from which is derived " wind ")

weather will drive ashore a large number in a See also:

state of utter destitution—many of them indeed are not unfrequently washed up dead—but what becomes of the bulk of the birds, not merely the comparatively few thousands that are natives of Britain, but the tens and hundreds of thousands, not to say millions, that are in summer denizens of more northern latitudes, no one can say. This See also:

MYSTERY (Gr. µw(Trilpcov, from tcuvrm, an initiate, µfew, to shut the mouth)

mystery is not See also:

PECULIAR

peculiar to the guillemot, but is shared by all the Alcidae that inhabit the See also:

ATLANTIC

Atlantic Ocean. Examples stray every season across the See also:

Bay of i The word, however, seems to be cognate with or derived from the Welsh and See also:

MANX

Manx Guillenz, or Gwilym as See also:

PENNANT, THOMAS (1726-1798)

Pennant spells it.

The association may have no real meaning, but one cannot help comparing the resemblance between the See also:

French guillemot and See also:

Guillaume with that between the See also:

ENGLISH

English willock (another name for the bird) and See also:

William. See also:

Biscay, are found off the coasts of See also:

Spain and See also:

PORTUGAL

Portugal, enter the Mediterranean and reach See also:

ITALIAN

Italian waters, or, keeping farther See also:

south, may even See also:

TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch the Madeiras, Canaries or See also:

AZORES (Acores), or WESTERN ISLANDS

Azores; but these bear no proportion whatever to the mighty hosts of whom they are literally the " scouts," and whose position and movements they no more reveal than do the vedettes of a well-appointed See also:

army. The See also:

COMMON

common guillemot of both sides of the Atlantic is replaced farther northward by a species with a stouter See also:

BILL

bill, the U. arra or U. bruennichi of ornithologists, and on the See also:

west See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

North See also:

AMERICA

America by the U. californica. The habits of all these are essentially the same, and the structural resemblance between all of them and the Auks is so See also:

GREAT

great that several systematists have relegated them to the genus Alca, confining the genus Uria to the guillemots of another See also:

GROUP

group, of which the type is the U. grylla, the See also:

black guillemot of British authors, the dovekey or See also:

GREENLAND (Danish, &c., Gronland)

Greenland See also:

dove of sailors, the tysty of Shetlanders. This bird assumes in summer an entirely black plumage with the exception of a See also:

white patch on each wing, while in See also:

winter it is beautifully marbled with white and black. Allied to it as species or See also:

GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical races are the U. mandti, U. See also:

COLUMBA, SAINT (Irish, Colum)

columba and U. See also:

CARBO

carbo. All these differ from the larger guillemots by laying two or three eggs, which are generally placed in some secure See also:

NICHE (through Fr. niche from Ital. nicchia, nicchio, shell; possibly from Lat. mitulus, a sea-mussel; cf. " napkin " from mappa)

niche, while the members of the other group See also:

lay but a single See also:

egg, which is invariably exposed on a See also:

BARE

bare ledge. (A.

End of Article: GUILLEMOT (Fr. guillemot 1)

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