BRITISH BIRDS 



is much reduced in size, owing to the shedding of the sheath on the frontal part, 

 and at the same time the blue appendages above and below the eye are also shed. 



On the ground the Puffin stands as shown in the plate, differing from the Razor- 

 bill and Guillemot in this respect, while, unlike the other members of this group, it 

 has the claws on the inner toes placed horizontally for some purpose, so far 

 unexplained, but possibly to enable the bird to arrange or disengage the rows of 

 small fishes carried in the bill to feed the young. 



82. 



