FRATERCULINA. : 7°7 
THE PUFFIN. 
FRATERCULA ARCTICA (Linnzus). 
The Puffin is the representative in the Atlantic of the well- 
marked sub-family Fratercudine, whose other members are confined 
to the North Pacific, the head-quarters of the Ade. Even in 
winter it is seldom altogether absent from British waters ; while 
from the end of March to early in April or May—according to 
latitude—it begins to return to its breeding-places, which it leaves 
with great regularity in the latter part of August. At the present 
day comparatively few nest in the Isle of Wight, or on the mainland 
of Dorsetshire, Devon and Cornwall; but numbers breed in the 
Scilly Islands, and myriads burrow in the slopes of Lundy Island, 
which consequently received its name (/unde puffin, ey island) from 
the Scandinavian rovers who formerly resided there. Many haunts 
exist in Wales, as well as a few in the Isle of Man; but the Flam- 
borough range of cliffs, and some of the Farne Islands, are the only 
resorts known on the east side of England. In Scotland large 
colonies are very plentiful, and the swarms of birds going and 
coming round many of the islands in the Hebrides, especially St. 
Kilda, make the horizon seem quite hazy; while the same may be 
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