■J4 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



VI. FRATERCULA Brisson. 1760. 

 -13. Puffin. 



Fratercula arctica (Linn.) .Schaff. i 789. 



This species breeds from the Bay of Fundy northward to the 

 islands in Disco Bay, Greenland. It is not recorded from Hudson 

 Bay. 



Found breeding in numbers at Bryon Island, one of the Mag- 

 •dalen Islands ; in large numbers on Bird Rocks ; also at Wreck 

 Bay, Anticosti, and on Parroquet Island, near Mingan Harbour. 

 '{Brewster^ Common on Greenland coast up to Lat. 70" at least ; 

 breeds plentifully on the Hunde and Green Islands, Disco Bay. 

 '{Kumelin.) A young bird of this species was shot on the Ottawa 

 River towards the end of October, 1881. {Ott. Nat.) 



Breeding Notes. — This species breeds abundantly on Gannet 

 Islands on the coast of Labrador. Mr. Dicks collected for me a 

 number of eggs on July 2nd, 1895, ^^ these islands. The nests 

 consisted of holes in the ground and the single egg is laid at the 

 ■end of the burrow. (Raim.) 



This bird breeds sparingly at Bryon Island, the most northerly 

 of the Magdalen group, and plentifully on Great Bird Rock, 

 eleven miles distant. I met with three nests at the former place, 

 :23rd June, 1897. One egg was laid in a hole in the crumbling 

 rock, and at that date incubation had commenced. No nest is 

 iormed, the egg being laid on the bare earth. At Bryon Island 

 the breeding holes are difficult to reach, and as the bird sits 

 closely there may be more of them than I supposed. One nest 

 -was as much as three feet from the entrance of the hole. [Rev. 

 C.J. Young.) 



MUSEUM specimens. 



Two males are in our collection, both obtained on the coast of 

 Labrador by Mr. A. P. Low in 1894. 



We have one egg taken by Mr. Guy on the Labrador coast in 

 1896 ; and another taken on the same coast July ist, 1892 

 received from Mr. Raine. 



13a. Large-billed Puffin. 



Fratercula arctica glacialis (Temm.) Blasius. 1862. 



Coasts and islands of the Arctic ocean from Spitzbergen to 

 Baffin Bay. (A. 0. U. List.) One obtained at Grand Manan, New 



