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PUFFIN. 



Class II. 



232. Puffin. Puphinus anglicus, Ge/ner Can opufc. gy. 



av. 725. Anas arctica. Clufii Exot. 



Pica marina. Aldr. a-v. III. 104. 



92. Alca arctica. Lin.Jyfi. zi\ n 



Puffin, Coulterneb, &c. Wil. Faun. Suec. fip. 141. 



cm. 325. IJlandis Sc Ncrnieg. Lunde, 



Raiijyn. au. 1 20. bujus pulli Lund Toller. 



Edw. a-u. 358. fig. I. Dams Ifiandfk Papegoye. 



The Bowger. Martin's voy. Brunnicb, 103. 



St. Kilda. 34. 

 Fratercula, le Macareux. Brifi- 



fon av 

 fi- I- 



VI. 81. Tab. 6. Br.Zccl. 1 



See-Papagey, or See-Taucher. 

 Frifich, II, 192. 



Descrip, 



Bill. 



Nostrils, 



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"^HIS bird weighs about twelve ounces : its 

 length is twelve inches : the breadth from 

 tip to tip of the wings extended, twenty-one inch- 

 es : the bill is fhort, broad at the bafe, comprefled 

 on the fides, and running up to a ridge, triangular 

 and ending in a fliarp point: the bafe of the upper 

 mandible is ftrengthened with a white narrow pro- 

 minent rim full of very minute holes : the bill is of 

 two colors, the part next the head of a bluifli grey, 

 the lower part red : in the former is one tranfverfe 

 groove or furrow, in the latter three : the fize of 

 the bills of thefe birds vary: thofe of Prieftholm IJle 

 are one inch and three quarters long; and the bafe 

 of the upper mandible one inch broad : but in the 

 birds from the Ifie of Man thefe proportions are 

 much lefs. 



The noftrils are very long and narrow -> com- 

 mence 



