904 rHE TUFTED PUFFIN 
recurrent nebulie whose approach one watches nervously You know that 
the birds are justly apprehensive, but there is something so weird and 
funereal about the whole performance! Each bird in passing pauses to 
iew the remains” with mildly deprecating eye, and heaves a visible if 
naudible sigh or regret Shoo! You silly fowls! We are no corpses! 
When convinced of 
the hopelessness of 
their cause the Puftins 
settle upon the surface 
of the water until the 
sca 1S black with 
them Or, if reas 
by the specta 
hdrawal, ma 
I@m) return to 
(uaker 
the burrow’s 
mouth acl alights 
with uphfted wing 
held well back The 
wings are also lifted 
easy the Puffin steps 
iS fpingeriv aS a slac k 
even our transverse 
fare we 111 the bill 
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the distal portion of 
ec uppel indible while others have nl wi There seems t be 
( erable T ion of size and distinctness w n these limits ind we 
ed to wonder whether this may not be an inde» of age, as in the 
+] horn £ 44] The third uleus. when present, appears at 
