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legs and feet, which they use as rudders, passing and repassing 
from the sea to their breeding-haunts. On the 8th of June, when 
at Videroe, [ took a couple of eggs, deeply incubated, from a hole ; 
the eggs were laid on the bare rock. 
111. Arctica alle, Linn. Little Auk. Native name, Fulkobi.— 
This truly arctic bird is not an uncommon winter visitor, and is 
frequently picked up inland, being blown ashore by the violence 
of the winter gales. Miiller noticed a single flock in Naalsoefiord, 
on the 8th of June, 1857, the weather at the time being cold and 
windy. It is scarcely necessary to add that it does not breed in 
the Feroe Islands. 
112. Fratercula arctica, Linn. Puffin. Native name, Lundi. 
—This is the most abundant of all the rock-birds visiting Feroe: 
it makes its appearance in mild seasons about the end of March, 
but more frequently during the first week in April. Svabo writes 
that in 1782, a very cold spring, the first puffin was seen on the 
28th of April, fourteen days later than usual. He knew a man 
who from five o’clock in the afternoon till midnight caught eight 
hundred of these birds with a hand-net; from two hundred to four 
hundred was considered an average take. Six puffins are valued as 
two guillemots or three razorbills for food; three puffins are 
considered as sufficient for a man servant's meal. Herr Miiller 
related to me the following anecdote, told him by a Thorshavn 
sailor of his acquaintance:—“ In 1867 we caught a young puffin 
in the harbour of Reykjavik: at first it was very shy, but after a 
short time it became fond of the ship’s dog. We were always 
sure to find the bird about the dog, and at night they slept 
together; we fed it with soaked dry fish, but after it had taken to 
the dog, it did not care for any food but what the dog got. The 
bird was on board the ship about one year, when the dog went sick 
and died: the day after the puffin also died; we thought it died 
of cold, having been accustomed to lie warm at the dog’s side.” 
White varieties of the puffin are not unfrequently seen, Herr 
Miiller has two in his collection: I saw a beauty in the flesh, 
brought from the island of Naalsoe on the 17th of June: it was 
pure white, with black eyes, and one. single black feather on the 
breast: the legs and bill were of the ordinary colour. There is a 
legend in the island of Skuoe, which until of late years protected 
white puffins, for it was said that each of these birds had been the 
means of saving a man’s life. Often when the fowlers have climbed 
