lo'Z 



PUFFIN AUK. 



Class II. 



3. Puffin. Alca arctica. A. rostro com- 



presso-ancipiti sulcato sulcis 

 , quatuor, oculorum orbita 



temporibusque albis, palpe- 

 . bra superiore mucronata. 



Lath. Ind. orn. 792. id. 



Syn, V. 314. 

 Puphinus anglicus. Gesner av. 



723. 

 Pica marina. Aldr. av. iii. gs. 

 Puffin, Coulterneb, &c. Wil. 



orn. 325. 

 Raii Syn. av. 120. 

 Edw. av. 358. Jig. 1. 

 The Bowger. Martin's voy. 



St. Kilda. 34. 



Fratercula, leMacareux. Bris- 



son av. vi. 81. Tal. 6. Jig. 



1. Hist, d'ois. ix. 358. PL 



Enl. 275. 

 Caii opusc. QJ. 



Anas arctica. Clusii Exot. 1 04. 

 Alca arctica. Gm. Lin. 54g. 

 Faun. Suec. sp. 141. . ' ^ 



Islandis & Norveg. Lunde, 



hujus pulli Lund Toller. 



Danis Islandsk Papegoye. 



Brunnich, 103. 

 See-Papagey, or See-Taucher. 



Frisch, ii. 1()2. 

 Br. Zool. 135. Arct. Zool. ii. 



223. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



J- HIS bird weighs about twelve ounces ; its 

 length is twelve inches ; the breadth from tip to 

 tip of the wings when extended, twenty-one 

 inches. The bill is short, broad at the base, 

 compressed on the sides, and running up to a 

 ridge, triangular and ending in a sharp point ; 

 the base of the upper mandible is strengthened 

 with a white narrow prominent rim full of very 

 minute holes ; the bill is of two colors, the part 

 next the head of a bluish grey, the lower part 

 red ; in the former is one transverse groove or 

 furrow, in the latter three; the size of the bills 

 of these birds varyj those of Priestholm Isle 



