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the bird, and succeeded in bringing it to the boat's side, 

 and then caught it with the hand." 



Captain J, D. Cameron writes that a Little Auk, found 

 at Bethersden, was brought to him. 



On December 28, 1878, Mr. K. J. Balston secured a 

 Little Auk which was captured on one of the ponds at 

 Boxley Abbey, in Kent. It was a male bird, and is now 

 in the Maidstone Museum. 



Genus FRATERCULA, Brisson. 



PUFFIN. 



Fraterciila arctica (Linnaeus). >S'.iV., i., p. 211 



(1766). 



Willock. 



The Puffin, like most of the northern sea-birds, is driven 

 on to the coast of Kent in severe weather, but only as an 

 accidental visitor. 



Boys includes it in his Birds of Sandioich, 1792. The 

 Eev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, in 1841, says : " These 

 curious birds are occasionally to be found in the cliffs in 

 the neighbourhood of Dover." 



Mr. Eiley Fortune writes : " I have in my collection 

 a specimen of the Puffin, which was shot on the Thames 

 between Erith and Gravesend, on June 12, 1885." 



Mr. W. Prentis says : " A storm-driven Puffin was 

 picked up dead on our Eainham marsh after the No- 

 vember gale of 1893." 



A young bird of the year was picked up on Blue Bell 

 Hill, above Aylesford, Kent, in October, 1905, and is now 

 in the Maidstone Museum. 



