ALGA ARCTIC A. 



PUFFIN. 



Generic Character. See Alca impcnnis. 



Synonyms. 



Alca Arctic a. Lin, Syjl. 1. p. 211. 4. 



Puffin. Br. ZnoL 2. 232. Ib fol 135. tab. H. Lath. 



Syn, 5. p 314. 3. Mont. Orn. ~Di5l. Bewick's 



Br. Birds, Ft. 2, p. 155. 



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JL H I S fpecies weighs from twelve to fourteen ounces, 

 and is in length about thirteen inches, and in breadth about 

 twenty inches. The bill is of a triangular form with flattened 

 furrowed fides ; it meafures at the bafe, from the top of the 

 upper mandible to the underfide of the lower, about one inch 

 and three quarters, and from the bafe to the tip an inch and 

 a half ; the bafe of the bill is encafed in a kind of fheath, 

 which is elevated, and has an infinite number of fm^ll punc- 

 tures on all its parts, which gives it the roughnefs of a file ; 

 the noftrils are placed near the edges of the upper mandible, 

 commencing at the {heath, and extending to the firft furrow ; 

 the furrows vary in number from three to five, in the one 

 from which our defcription was taken, there were but three, the 

 ufual number is four in the upper, and three on the lower 



mandible ; 



