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PUFFIN AUK. 
3. Purrin. Alea arctica. A. rostro com- 
DEscrip- 
TION. 
presso-ancipiti sulcato sulcis 
quatuor, oculorum orbita 
temporibusque albis, palpe- 
bra superiore mucronata. 
Lath. Ind. orn. 792. id. 
Syn. v. 314. 
Puphinusanglicus. Gesner av. 
725. 
Pica marina. Aldr. av. iii. 92. 
Puffin, Coulterneb, &c. Wil. 
orn. 325. 
Rati Syn. av. 120. 
Edw. av. 358. fig. 1. 
The Bowger. Martin's voy. 
St. Kilda. 34. 
Crass IL 
Fratercula, le Macareux. Bris- 
son av. vi. 81. Tab. 6. fig. 
1. Hist. Gois. ix. 358. Pl. 
Enl. 275. 
Cait opusc. 97. 
Anasarctica. Clusi Exot. 104. 
Alca arctica. Gm. Lin. 549. 
Faun. Suec. sp. 141. 
Islandis & Norveg. Lunde, 
hujus pulli Lund Toller. 
Danis Islandsk Papegoye. 
Brunnich, 103. 
See-Papagey, or See-Taucher. 
Frisch, ii. 192. 
Br. Zool. 135. Arct. Zool. ii. 
223. 
Tus bird weighs about twelve ounces ; its 
length is twelve inches; the breadth from tip to 
tip of the wings when extended, twenty-one 
inches. The bill is short, broad at the base, 
compressed on the sides, and running up toa 
ridge, triangular and ending in a sharp point; 
the base of the upper mandible is strengthened 
with a white narrow prominent rim full of very 
minute holes ; the bill is of two colors, the part 
next the head of a bluish grey, the lower part 
red; in the former is one transverse groove or 
furrow, in the latter three; the size of the bills 
of these birds vary; those of Priestholm Isle 
