PUFFIN. 



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The Puffin visits various parts of Scandinavia, the Faroe 

 Islands, and Iceland ; it has been found as far as Nova 

 Zembla, and other high northern latitudes. East of this 

 country it is taken on the coasts of Holland and France. A 

 single specimen is recorded to have been taken at Genoa in 

 the winter of 1823, and M. Savi includes -it in his history of 

 the Birds of Italy. 



The beak has the basal ridge yellow, the space in advance 

 of the base bluish-grey, with three grooves and four ridges of 

 orange; the naked skin at the gape is yellow ; the irides grey, 

 eyelids orange ; lore, chin, cheeks, and ear-coverts white ; 

 forehead, crown, occiput, a collar round the neck, all tlie 

 back, wings, and tail black, the wing-primaries rather the 

 lightest in colour ; all the under surface of the body white ; 

 legs, toes, and their membranes orange ; the whole length 

 twelve inches, of the wing six inches. Both sexes alike in 

 plumage. Varieties in colour have been known to occur. 



