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the floor, but when offered a tub of water, ‘‘ seemed 
crazed with delight. It dived and splashed, but was 
puzzled by its close quarters, and could not realize 
that the tub’s sides were so inconveniently near.’’ 
“There is much,” says Dr. Lockwood, ‘“‘to wonder 
at and to admire in the sea-dove’s ways when in her 
own element. . . . When it suits they can ride the 
crest like the stormy petrel. But see! that gorgeous 
wave approaching, and that Dovekie goes right 
through it as an arrow through a cloud of smoke. 
. .. It can float like a bubble and progress like a 
shot.” 
The Guillemots are entirely marine, according to 
Nuttall, but the inevitable river stragglers have occa- 
sionally turned up. They are arctic birds that wan- 
der southward in winter and are not abundant at any 
time, even off the coast. They are strong flyers, 
moving rapidly in direct lines, and at but a slight 
distance above the water. They are expert divers, 
and move under the water with much rapidity. They 
feed on crustaceans, fish, and such animal food as 
comes in their way. They are commonly known as 
Sea-pigeons. 
The Puffin, which is at once recognized by its 
enormous box-like beak, is another of the arctic 
birds, or semi-arctic, that wanders down the Atlantic 
coast in winter as far south as New Jersey. One is 
said to have been killed on the Delaware River near 
Philadelphia in 1876. Occasionally they have been 
found a few miles inland in New Jersey after an un- 
usually violent storm. 
Of the Divers, or Loons, and Grebes we have 
