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agreeable pets only that they emitted an unpleasant grunting noise, 
and ran about incessantly during the night, when each footstep 
could be counted.” 7 
Their relations with other species are at times playful or warlike, 
depending on the point of view. Thus I once watched a puffin chase 
three black guillemots by repeatedly diving and swimming under 
water toward them while they followed the same tactics in eluding 
the pursuit. At last all four came to the surface near together, the 
ardor of the chase evaporated, and they all seemed unconscious of 
each other’s presence. 
Winter—The full migration of the puffin along the New England 
coast takes place in October or later. During the winter they fre- 
quent by preference the waters off rocky headlands, like Cape Ann 
or Marblehead, and may best be observed at such places, or in winter 
steamboat trips along the coast. Their food habits at this season are 
much the same as in more northern waters already described. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Breeding range.—Coasts and islands of the North Atlantic. For- 
merly from Maine and the Bay of Fundy, Newfoundland, the Gulf 
of St. Lawrence, and Labrador north to southern Greenland. Now 
restricted on the coast of Maine to Matinicus Rock and Machias Seal 
Island ; and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Bryon Island, Bird Rock, 
Anticosti, Bald Island, and Bradore. Probably extirpated from the 
remainder of the above range south of northern Labrador. Some 
Greenland records probably refer to F. a. nawmanni but arctica has 
been taken at Holsteinborg (and elsewhere?). 
In Europe breeds from Berlenga Islands, off Portugal, north to 
Norway, the British Isles (mainland of Great Britain, Ireland, 
Scilly Islands, Outer Hebrides, Orkney, and Shetland Islands), the 
Faroes and Iceland. 
Winter range.—Birds probably winter as far north as they find 
open water, but there is little definite information on this point. 
They occur along the coast of Maine south to Massachusetts, rarely 
to Long Island, New York, and casually to the Delaware River (near 
Chester, Pennsylvania). Audubon recorded it from the mouth of 
Savannah River. 
They also winter about the coast of Great Britain and south to the 
western Mediterranean Sea (Spain, east coast, Italy, Sicily, Malta, 
and the coast of Morocco), casually to the Azores and Canary 
Islands. 
Spring migration.—Migration dates are almost wholly lacking. A 
bird was taken on Long Island, New York, March 30 (one found 
April 30 was badly decayed and may have died weeks previously). 
