BRITISH BIRDS. 



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These birds are inhabitants of Spitzbergen and 

 Greenland, and are also met with at Newfound- 

 land, where they are called Ice Birds. Captain 

 Sabine says, "it is not common in the Polar Sea; 

 its great breeding station is in the northern part 

 of Baffin's Bay/' They are rare visitants of the 

 British Isles. That from which the above figure 

 and description were taken, was caught alive on 

 the Durham coast, and was, for a short time, fed 

 with grain. 



