PUFFIN, OR COULTERNEB. 



(Mormon arciicus, Illiger. Bonap. Synops. p. 430. No. 380. M. fra- 

 tercula, Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 933. Mca arctica, Linn. Gmel. 

 Syst. i. sp, 4. Lath. Ind. ii. p. 792. sp. 3. ji. labradora, Lath. 

 Ind. ii. sp. 4. and ^. dcleata, Brunn. Orn. Boreal. No. 104. [the 

 young]. Le Macarcux, Buff. Ois. ix. p. 358. t. 26. Id. PI. Enlura. 

 275. [adult]. Edwards, tab. 358. fig. 1. Puffin, Penn. Brit. 

 Zool. p. 135. t. H. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 427, and 428.) 



Sp. Charact. — Black, beneath white; a broad black collar round 

 the neck ; bill red, much compressed, both mandibles with at 

 least tliree lateral grooves before the nostrils, the lower mandi- 

 ble but little curved. — In the youngs the bill is yellowish-dusky, 

 and even. 



The Puffin is a general inhabitant of the cold and in- 

 clement regions of the whole northern hemisphere. On 

 the coasts of northern Europe they are met with to the Icy 

 Sea. They are found in Iceland, Greenland, Spitzbergen 

 and the Feroe Isles; on the ccast of Kamtschatka and the 

 Kuriles they are also common. In the temperate climates 



