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A Little Auk captured alive on our coast, by Mr. 

 J. W. Harris, " sho^yed no concern when taken 

 into the house, but sat and dressed its feathers, 

 occasionally giving a low whistle." A specimen of 

 the Little Auk, lately joresented to the Carlisle 

 Museum by Mr. H. P. Senhouse, was felled by 

 telegraph wires near Bootle. 



Genus FRATEKCULA. 



F. Arctica. Puffin. 



The Puffin is a winter visitant, not unfrequently 

 washed ashore, exhausted or lifeless, after westerly 

 gales. We have no notes of its occurring far inland 

 in Cumberland ; but in August, 1885, a Puffin was 

 obtained at Kirkby Stephen, in Westmorland, at a 

 distance of from forty to fifty miles from the sea. 



