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PUFFIN. 



Class II. 



232. Puffin. Puphinus anglicus. Gefner 

 ay. 725. 

 Pica marina. Aldr. a<v. III. 



92. 

 Purlin, Coulterneb, &c. Wil. 



orn. 325. 

 Rati fy n. a<v. I 20. 

 Ednjj. a<v. 358. fig. I. 

 The Bowger. Martin's <voy. 



St. Kilda. 34. 

 Fratercula, le Macareux. Brif- 

 fon a<v. VI. 81. Tab. 6. 

 fig- «- 



Caii op life. 97. 



Anas arttica. Clujii Exot. 



104. 

 Alca arttica. Lin, fyft. 211. 

 Faun. Suec. fp. 141. 

 JJlandis & Norveg. Lunde, 



bujus pu Hi Lund Toller. 



Danis Jflandfk Papegoye. 



Brunnich, 103. 

 See-Papagey, or See-Taucher. 



Frifchy II. 192. 

 Br. Zool. 135. 



Descrip- 



Bjll. 



Nostrils. 



r-g-^ 



IS bird weighs about twelve ounces : its 

 gth is twelve inches : the breadth from 

 tip to tip of the wings extended, twenty-one inch- 

 es : the bill is fhort, broad at the bafe, comprefTed 

 on the fides, and running up to a ridge, triangular 

 and ending in a fharp point: the bafe of the upper 

 mandible is ftrengthened with a white narrow pro- 

 minent rim full of very minute holes : the bill is of 

 two colors, the part next the head of a bluifh grey, 

 the lower part red : in the former is one tranfverfe 

 groove or furrow, in the latter three : the fize of 

 the bills of thefe birds vary: thofe of Prieftholm IJIe 

 are one inch and three quarters long ; and the bafe 

 of the upper mandible one inch broad : but in the 

 birds from the IJIe of Man thefe proportions are 

 much lefs. 

 The noftrils are very long and narrow 5 com- 

 mence 



