guilert (giler)

[ In the laste tymes there schulen come gilours wandringe after hir owne desires, not in pitee. Wyclif, 18. A gylour shal hymself bigyled be. Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 401. So goodly did beguile the guyler of his prey. Spenser, F. Q., II. vii. 64. breed, laying a single large pyriform egg on the edges of rocks overhanging the sea. A variety of this species with a white ring round the eye, and a white line behind it, is known as the ringed or spectacled guillemot, and sometimes described as a different species, L. rhingvia. Both have many local names, as willy, spratter, quet, scout, skut tock, skiddaw, kiddaw, tarrock, tinker, lungie or longie, murre, marrot or morrot, lamy or lavy, strany, etc., some of these being shared by the razor-billed auk. (See cut under murre.) The thick-billed or Brünnich's guillemot is Lom via bruennichi, closely resembling the foregoing, but with a stouter bill. Similar guillemots inhabiting the North Pacific are known as ares or arries. The birds of the restricted genus Uria are smaller and otherwise distinct; Black Guillemot ( Uria grylle ). Right-hand figure, summer plumage; left-hand figure, winter plumage. they are in summer blackish, with usually a white patch on the wing, and with red legs. Such are the black guil. lemot or sea-pigeon, U. grylle, of the North Atlantic, and sundry North Pacific representatives of the same, as U. co lumba and U. carbo.