ISO BRITISH SEA BIRDS. 



fish in taste. More than two hundred years ago 

 Ligon, in his History of Barbadoes, complains of 

 the ill taste of Puffins which he had received 

 from the Scilly Islands (once a great centre of 

 exportation of these birds), and asserts that this kind 

 of food is only for servants. The taste for salted 

 and dried Puffin, however, still lingers in the land ; 

 for at St. Kilda vast numbers are caught, and so 

 preserved by the natives for food, Dried Puffin, 

 perhaps a twelvemonth old, is one of the few 

 delicacies of the island ; whilst the feathers help 

 materially to pay the rent ! 



