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of this and the common Puffin were formerly held by the natives 

 as a charm, and worn by the priefts as amulets ; indeed at the 

 prefent thefe have been feen fixed round their head- dreffes, but 

 fuppofed now to be only efteemed as mere ornaments : the 

 fkins are however made ufe of for cloathing, being fewed toge- 

 ther. It is called in Kamtfchatka, Muechagatka-, and in Ofchotka, 

 Igilma*. The manners of this coincide with the laft, and like 

 that it burrows under ground, lining the neft with feathers and 

 fea-plants. Lays one white egg, the end of May or beginning of 

 June, which alone is thought fit to be eaten, the flefti of the bird 

 itfelf being infipid and hard. It feeds on crabs, Jhrimps, and 

 Jhell-filh, which laft it forces from the rocks with its ftrong bill %. 



3. Alca Arttica, Lin. Syft. i. p. 211. 4. — Faun. Suec. N° 141.— Brun. N° 103. 



4- PUFFIN A. —Mulkr, N° 140.— Fri/cb, t. 192. 



Le Macareux, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 81. pi. 6. fig. z.—Buf. Oif. ix. p. 358. 



pi. 26. — PL Eal. 275. 

 Jpatka, Hiji. Kamtf. p. 153. 



Puffin, Rati Sjn. p. 120. A. 5. — Will. Orn. p. 325. pi. 6;. — Hiji. Grotnl. ij. 

 pi. 1. — Albin, ii. pi. 78, 79. — Ediv. pi. 358. fig. 1. — Br. Zool. ii. 

 N° 232.— ArS. Zool. N° 427. — Tour in Wales, pi. 20. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. CIZE of a Teal: length twelve inches : breadth twenty-one : 

 weight twelve ounces. The bill is an inch and a quarter 

 long, and of a fingular fhape, much comprefled on the fides, and 

 near an inch and a half deep at the bafe ; from whence both 

 mandibles tend to a point, which is a little curved ; acrofs the 

 upper are four oblique furrows j on the under three : half of the 



* Hiji. Kamt/ch. p. 183. f Ar£l. Zool. 



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