252 PUFFIN. 



[Genus — Lomvia.] 



[LoMviA TROiLE — Common Guillemot] 



[ Uria iroile — Yarrell?\ 



Breeds in suitable localities throughout the British Islands. 



Lomvia bruennichi — Briinnich's Guillemot. 

 A rare straggler to the coasts of Scotland. 



[Genus — Uria.] 



[Uria grylle — Black Guillemot.] 



Visits England on its partial migration. 



[Genus — Mergulus.] 



[Mergulus alle — Little Auk.] 



An irregular visitant to the British coasts. 



Genus— FRATERCULA. 



FRATERCULA ARCTICA— Puffin. 



The Puffin, or Sea-Parrot has once been met with in Hereford- 

 shire. The specimen now in the Hereford Museum was knocked 

 down by a carter, with his whip, in June 1876, on the road leading 

 from VVoolhope to Hereford. There is no other record of its 

 appearance here. 



The Puffin builds in many localities around the coasts of 

 Great Britain, migrating southwards in winter. " The Scilly Islands 

 have been famous for these birds from very early times," says 

 Yarrell. William Botoner, or Buttoner, commonly called William of 

 Worcester, in his "Itinerary" (c. 1468-78) speaks of the Island of 

 Trescoe as inhabited, " cuniculis et avibus vocatis pophyns" 



