1891.
July 12
(No 4)
England.
Tintagil. - one bird would follow another closely
during its entire period of submergence, the two 
doubling circling and twisting like fishes at
play. Again a bird returning from the depths
would suddenly change its course and, evidently
with miscevous*[mischievous] design, would dart directly
towards another floating on the surface and
sometimes raise it nearly out of water when 
it reached it although the victim selected
for this practical joke usually discovered its
danger in time and escaped by fluttering or
paddling quickly to one side or the other.
All this and more could be easily seen through
the clear, light green water from my elevated
position. Indeed I could distinctly see whitish
rocks on the bottom when the water must 
have been thirty or forty feet deep.
  The Puffins rarely went out of my sight
or, indeed, nearly to the bottom. As a rule
they all seemed to fish at about the same
depth on reaching which they moved about
on a nearly or quite horozontal plane.
They did not stay much, if at all, longer
under water than do most of our diving
Ducks.
  On the surface they floated high and rarely
swam more than a few feet in any one direction
seeming to use their feet merely to maintain
their position but often paddling for some time
with a dabbling motion turning the body round
and round in one spot. When they wished to