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drowned, and the Puffin returns in triumph - to her nest. But 

 should the Raven at the first onset get hold of the Coulter- 

 neb's neck, he generally comes off victorious, killing the mother 

 and feasting on her eggs or young. The fishermen sometimes 

 draw these birds out cf their burrows by introducing the hand 

 into the hole, which is seized by the bird, which suffers itself to 

 be pulled out rather than lose its hold. Its bite is, however, 

 very severe, and it can when irritated take out a piece of flesh 

 from a man's hand without any extraordinary effort. When 

 reared and domesticated, these birds become quite tame, and 

 in the end familiar. 



The Puffin breeds on the islands at the mouth of the Bay of 

 Fundy, and north to Greenland, and in winter is more or less com- 

 mon, from Nova Scotia to New Jersey. 



Note. — The Large-billed Puffin {F. arctica glacialis) is 

 said to breed farther north than true arctica. It is similar to the 

 common Puffin, but larger. 



The Tufted Puffin {Lunda cirrhatd), a North Pacific bird, 

 is entitled to notice here through Audubon's report that he cap- 

 tured an example at the mouth of the Kennebec River, Maine. 



