Clafs II. P U F F I IT. 4 o 5 



entirely black. The cheeks, chin, and throat are 

 white 5 in all other refpefts it agrees with the former 

 fpecies : we can only obferve, that this was fhot in 

 the winter j when the common fort have quitted the 

 coafts. 



When this bird was killed, it was obferved to have 

 about the neck abundance of lice, refembling thofe 

 that infeft the human kind, only they were fpotted 

 with yellow. 



III. The PUFFIN. 



Puphinus anglicus. Gefner a<v. av.vi. %\. tab. 6. Jig, i, 



725. Call cpufc. 97. 



Pica marina. Jldr. a<v. iii. 92. Anas ar&ica. Clufii Exot. 104. 



Puffin* Coalterneb, &c. Wil. orn. Alca ardica. Lin.fyfi. 21 1. 



32c. Faun. Suec.jp. 14.1. 



Raiijyn. a<v. 120. » IJlandis & Norveg. Lunde, hujui 



Ed-iv. a<v. 358. y?g-. 1. pulli Lund Toller. Danis 



The Bovvger. Martins moy. St, lilandfk Papegoye. Bruhnicb. 



Hilda. 34. 103. 



Fratercula, le Macareux. BriJJbn Br. Zoo/. 135. 



/ "T A HIS bird weighs about twelve ounces : its Defer. 



■** length is twelve inches : the breadth from tip 

 to tip of the wings extended, twenty-one inches: the 

 bill is fhort, broad at the bafe, comprefTed on the 

 fides, and running up to a ridge, triangular and end- 

 ing in a fliarp point : the bafe of the upper mandible 

 is flrengthened with a white narrow prominent rim 

 full of very minute holes: the bill is of two colors, the 

 part next the head of a bluifh 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 : 



