5i6 PUFFIN; Class II. 



taken, is very difagreeable ; being like the efforts 

 of a dumb perfon to fpeak. 



Note of Sea The notes of all the fea birds are extremely 

 Fowl, 



harm or inharmonious : we have often refted un- 

 der the rocks attentive to the various founds above 

 our heads, which, mixed with the folemn roar of 

 the waves fwelling into and retiring from the vad 

 caverns beneath, have produced a fine effect. The 

 fharp voice of the fea gulls, the frequent chatter 

 of the guillemots, the loud note of the auks, the 

 fcream of the herons, together with the hoarfe, 

 deep, periodical croak of the corvorants, which 

 ferves as a bafe to the reft •, has often furnifhed 

 us with a concert, which, joined with the wild fee- 

 nery that furrounded us, afforded, in a high de- 

 gree, that fpecies of pleafure which arifes from the 

 novelty, and we may fay gloomy grandeur of the 

 entertainment. 



The winter refidence of this genus, and that of 

 the guillemot, is but imperfectly known : it is pro- 

 bable they live at fea, in fome more temperate 

 climate, remote from land ; forming thofe multi- 

 tudes of birds that navigators obferve in many parts 

 of the ocean : they are always found there at cer- 

 tain feafons, retiring only at breeding time : repair- 

 ing to the northern latitudes ; and during that pe- 

 riod are found as near the Pole as navigators have 

 penetrated. 



During winter Razor-bills and Puffins frequent 

 she coaft of Andalufia, but do not breed there. 



Rotge* 



