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Order XV. Alccc 



to burrow in earthy slopes on islands or cliffs, and 

 laying a coarse-grained whitish egg with faint lilac 

 markings on the bare soil or a little dry grass. It is 

 most amusing to walk about a big colony and see the 

 birds popping out of their holes one after the other and 



PuHins 



speeding like arrows to the sea, which soon becomes 

 covered with them, while it is equally interesting to 

 watch them passing to and fro with fish for their young 

 later in the season. They bite severely if disturbed in 

 their burrows. The Puffin ranges from the Arctic seas 

 in Europe to Portugal and to the Bay of Fundy in 



