PYGOPODES. ( 307 ) A LCI DM. 



THE PUFFIN. 



SEA PAEKOT, COULTER NEB, POPE, GULDER HEAD, 

 TAMMY NORIE,! MULLET, BOTTLE NOSE. 



Fratercula arctica. 



Yonder peopled rocks, 

 To whose wild solitude, from worlds unknown. 

 The birds of passage transmigrating come. 



Mallet. 



Mr. Robert Gray says that the Puffin is a migratory bird, 

 and all those bred on the Bass disappear early in September, 

 by which time, however, or very soon afterwards, they are 

 replaced by other flocks from arctic waters.^ 



Although this species is found off the coast of Berwick- 

 shire at all seasons of the year, it does not appear to breed 

 at St. Abb's Head now ; but in former times a few pairs 

 nested there. Mr. Selby, in his " Notice of Birds observed 

 in the neighbourhood of St. Abb's Head on the 18th of July 

 1832," remarks that the Pufhn " also finds appropriate holes 

 wherein to deposit its eggs. It does not appear, however, 

 to be very numerous, as only two or three individuals were 



1 "Norwegian noere signifies pudlus, homuncio — the boy, or mannikin." — 

 Jamieson, Scot. Diet. Chambers, in his Popular Rhymes of Scotland, says that 

 the following couplet is repeated jocularly when a young man refuses to salute a 

 rustic coquette : — 



Tammie Norie o' the Bass 

 Canua kiss a young lass. 



He adds that it is also customary to call a stujaid-looking man a Tammie Norie. — 

 Popular Rhymes of Scotland, new edition, p. 190. 



2 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol viii. p. 54. 



