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PUFFIN". 



COULTER-NEB. SEA-PAEEOT. 



Mormon frotercula, GouLD. Temmixck. 



Alca arctica, Pennant. Montagu. 



Mormon — A hobgoblin. Fratercula — ..? 



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 

 1823. 



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 3rd. of that month in Seaford Bay, Sussex, 

 where several had been procured the previous December. In 



