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PUFFIN. 
COULTER-NEB. SEA-PARROT. 
Mormon fratercula, GovuLD. TEMMINCK. 
Alca arctica, PENNANT. Montagu. 
Mormon—A hobgoblin. Fratercula—.......000:.2 
In giving to the world this my ‘Book of Mormon,’ the 
historical part is illustrated by a figure which, though not 
one of the ‘Golden Plates,’ will, I hope, more truly corrob- 
orate the fidelity of the account I furnish from the salt 
sea, than did those of the impostor of the ‘Salt Lake’ that 
which he gave to the deluded followers of his wretched 
deception. 
The Puffin is extremely abundant in Iceland, Lapland, 
and Norway, as well as in other parts of Scandinavia, and 
thence goes north to the Faroe Islands, Nova Zembla, and 
Spitzbergen. In America, it belongs to Labrador, Baffin’s 
Bay, Hudson’s Bay, and many other parts, advancing south- 
wards as far as Georgia. 
It is taken on the French, Spanish, and Dutch coasts, 
and has occurred in Italy—a single specimen in the year 
1825. 
They are seen in immense multitudes in the Shetland 
Islands, and not a few resort annually to the Fern Islands, 
on the coast of Northumberland. 
In Yorkshire, the Puffin is common at Flamborough. One 
of these birds was found dead in Whitecliff Bay, Isle of 
Wight, Hampshire, on the 4th. of January, 1853, after some 
stormy weather; others have been observed on the coast; 
one also on the 38rd. of that month in Seaford Bay, Sussex, 
where several had been procured the previous December. In 
