THE PUFFIN. 221 



have frequently seen an uninterrupted line of them, extending 

 full liaK-way over the bay^ or to a distance of more than three 

 miles, and so close together that thirty have fallen at one shot. 

 This Hving column, on an average, might have been about six 

 yards broad and as many deep. There must have been nearly 

 four millions of birds on wing at one time." These extracts show 

 that the individuals occurring in the British seas are mere strag- 

 glers from " high quarters." 



Audubon gives a very pleasing account of this species, as ob- 

 served during his voyages across the Atlantic. ' Orn. Biog/ 

 vol. iv. p. 304. 



The following note was received too late to be printed in its 

 proper place, at p. 208: — "Guillemots and razorbills breed in 

 considerable numbers in holes at inaccessible parts of the cliffs 

 between the Reannies and Sovereign Islands on the coast of Cork. 

 The former are much more numerous than the latter, and flock 

 more together. About fifty feet above the water at Eeannie Bay 

 there is a small cave in the perpendicular cliff, three or four feet 

 in diameter, out of which thirty or forty guillemots commonly 

 fly when a shot is fired from a boat.""^ 



THE PUFEIN. 

 Sea Parrot ; Coulterneb.f 



Fratercula arctica, Linn, (sp.) 

 Alca „ „ 



Mormon fratercula, Temm. 



Is a regular summer visitant to each side of the island. 

 The islets called the Maiden's or Huliu rocks, off the entrance to 



* Mr. R. Warren, jun. 



■f Tanimie Norric, provincially in Scotland. By this name it is alluded to by 

 Sir Walter Soott in the grand scene in the ' Antiquary,' in which the baronet and his 

 daughter are near being lost upon the sea-coast. 



