PUFFIN. 



NATATORES. 



469 

 ALCADM. 







THE PUFFIN, 



SEA PARROT, AND COULTERNEB. 



Fratercula arctica. 



Aka arctica, The Puffin, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 152. 



., ., MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



,, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 181. 



Fratercida,, Common Coulterneb, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 130. 



Puffin, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 439. 



The JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 260. 



Mormon fratercula, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. ii. 



., Macareau moine, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 933. 



FRATERCULA. Generic Characters. Bill shorter than the head, higher than 

 long, very much compressed, both mandibles arched, transversely grooved, notched 

 towards the point ; the culmen as high as the top of the head, and with a cutting 

 edge. Nostrils lateral, marginal, linear, naked, almost entirely closed by a naked 

 membrane. Legs short, abdominal ; feet with three toes only, all in front, 

 united by membranes ; claws curved. Wings and tail' short. 



