AUKS. 117 



as I am informed by Mr. Pike, one in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Bury, of Branksome Tower, was shot by 

 him off Christchurch Beach. 



LITTLE AUK. Mergulwt alle, (L) 



Yarrell, iv. p. 85; Dresser, viii. p. 591; Ibis List, p. 208'' 

 Alca alle, Harting, p. 7 1 ; Seebohm, iii. p. 380 ; Alca alca 

 (error for alle), Pulteney's List, p. 1 7. 



Like the last-named, a winter visitant, but of more 

 frequent occurrence. Pulteney notices one that was 

 shot at Child Okeford. After an experience of many 

 years, Mr. Rolls, the bird-staffer at Weymouth, stated 

 that not more than seven specimens of this bird had 

 passed through his hands. All had been picked 

 up in the neighbourhood of Weymouth. One was 

 shot on the Wareham river in 1860; another near 

 the Portland Ferry-bridge, January 8, 1870. During 

 the same month seven were seen in the Portland 

 Roads, the wind at the time blowing a hurricane, 

 which lasted a week. In the spring of 1873, one 

 was shot in Poole harbour during a gale, and another 

 was picked up dead on Damary Farm, Blandford, 

 twenty miles from the sea. 



PUFFIN. Fratercula arctica, (L.) 



Tarrell, iv. p. 90 ; Harting, p. 70 ; Dresser, viii. p. 599 ; See- 

 bohm, iii. p. 364 ; Ibis List, p. 208 ; Alca arctica, Pulteney's 

 List, p. 17. 



The Puffin appears almost to a day during the last 

 week in March, and breeds in our cliffs in company 



