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coast-cliffs affords an opportunity to the Puffin to 

 excavate its burrow ; but not unfrequently it saves 

 itself some labour by taking possession of the bur- 

 row of the rabbit ; the formidable beak of the 



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bird presenting an unanswerable argument to the 

 discomfited quadruped, when he would presume to 

 dispute the tenancy. Mr, Yarrell enumerates as 

 lodging-stations around this country, the Isle of 

 Man, the coast of Anglesey, the Scilly Islands, 

 where it is more common than in Cornwall ; the 

 high cliffs of the Isle of Wight, between the 

 Needle-rocks and Freshwater-gate ; the Yorkshire 

 coast; the Fern Islands; Puffin Island in the 



