"fFhe food of tliis cirrious little bird is fmall fiffi and infers ; 

 Bewick mentions that the one from wiiich |iis figure was taken, 

 was caught alive on the Durham coaft, and v/as for a ibort 

 time fed on grain." 



It breeds in Greenland and the other afore-named places, 

 and is faid to lay two eggs ; they are larger than thofe of a 

 pigeon^ of a bill fli white colour."" 



About the latter end of May 1812, a finfe 'fpecimen of 

 Alca ar^tica (the Puffin) ^as \take,n on the Thames near 

 Chelfea, by a fiflierman, who kept it alive for feme days ; 

 we are at lofs to conceive bv what unaccountable accident this 

 feird iliould have wandered fo far from the fea coaft, as the 

 iieareft place to which the fpecies is known to refort, is the 

 cliffs of Dover. 



