14 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
VI. FRATERCULA Brisson. 1760. 
13. Puffin. 
Fratercula arctica (LINN.) SCHAFF. 1789. 
This species breeds from the Bay of Fundy northward to the 
islands in Disco Bay, Greenland. It isnot recorded from Hudson 
Bay. 
Found breeding in numbers at Bryon Island, one of the Mag- 
dalen Islands; in large numbers on Bird Rocks ; also at Wreck 
Bay, Anticosti, and on Parroquet Island, near Mingan Harbour. 
(Brewster.) Common on Greenland coast up to Lat. 70° at least ; 
breeds plentifully on the Hunde and Green Islands, Disco Bay. 
(Kumelin.) A young bird of this species was shot on the Ottawa 
River towards the end of October, 1881. (O¢. Vat.) 
BREEDING Nores.—This species breeds abundantly on Gannet 
Islands on the coast of Labrador. Mr. Dicks collected for me a 
number of eggs on July 2nd, 1895, on these islands. The nests 
consisted of holes in the ground and the single egg is laid at the 
end of the burrow. (Raine.) 
This bird breeds sparingly at Bryon Island, the most northerly 
of the Magdalen group, and plentifully on Great Bird Rock, 
eleven miles distant. J met with three nests at the former place, 
23rd June, 1897. One egg was laid in a hole in the crumbling 
rock, and at that date incubation had commenced. No nest is 
formed, the egg being laid on the bare earth. At Bryon Island 
the breeding holes are difficult to reach, and as the bird sits 
closely there may be more of them than I supposed. One nest 
was as much as three feet from the entrance of the hole. (Rev. 
C. J. Young.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two males are in our collection, both obtained on the coast of 
Labrador by Mr. A. P. Low in 1894. 
We have one egg taken by Mr. Guy on the Labrador coast in 
1896; and another taken on the same coast July Ist, 1892, 
received from Mr. Raine. 
13a. Large-billed Puffin. 
Fratercula arctica glacialis (TFumM.) Biastus. 1862. 
Coasts and islands of the Arctic ocean from Spitzbergen to 
Baffin Bay. (A. O. U. List.) One obtained at Grand Manan, New 
