BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 179 



ashore during a gale, and, being too exhausted to 

 rise, had been taken by hand. 



The Little Auk is included in Professor Ansted's 

 list, and marked as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. 

 There is no specimen at present in the Museum. 



158. Puffin. Fratercula arctica, Linnaeus. 

 French, " Macareux." — The Puffin, or Barbelote* 

 as it is called by the Guernsey sailors and in the 

 Guernsey Bird Act, is a regular and numerous 

 summer visitant to the Islands, breeding in con- 

 siderable numbers in many places. None breed, 

 however, in Guernsey itself, or in any of the little 

 rocky islands immediately surrounding it. Some 

 breed on Sark and the islands about it, and a few 

 also on Herm ; but their great breeding quarters 

 about these parts are from the Amfrocques to the 

 north end of Herm. On every one of the little 

 rocky islands between these places, and including 

 the Amfrocques, considerable numbers of Puffins 

 breed, either in holes in the soft soil which has 

 accumulated on some of these islands, or amongst 

 the loose rocks and stones ; these latter, however, 

 are the safest places for the Puffin, as, in spite of 

 the Guernsey Bird Act, which protects the eggs as 

 well as the birds, the Guernsey fishermen are fond 

 of visiting these .islands whenever they can for the 

 ■'' See also Metivier's Dictionary. 



