ARCTIC PUFFIN. 



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versely grooved, and emarginate at the tip ; at the 

 base it is generally furnished with a curiously puckered 

 skin, forming a kind of star: the nostrils are placed 

 in a long narrow groove, near the edge of the beak, 

 and are nearly covered with a naked membrane : their 

 wings are short, but not so much so as to prevent 

 their flying, which motion they perform, however, 

 with less facility than the birds of the preceding genera 

 of this family ; but they dart along the surface of the 

 sea with great address. They generally frequent the 

 coasts or shores of the sea, being rarely found inland, 

 or on the fresh-w^ater lakes, and feed on small fishes, 

 insects, and marine vegetables : they lay two eggs, 

 and nidificate in burrows. 



ARCTIC PUFFIN. 



(Fratercula arctica.) 



Fr. corpore 7iigricante, ge?2is, pectore abdomineque albis^ rostro 



rubro basi nigro. 

 Puffin with a dusky body, the cheeks, breast, and abdomen white, 



the beak red, with its base black. 

 Alca arctica. Linn. Si/st. Nat, 1.211. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 549. 



Brun. Orn. Boreal, no. 103. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 792. 

 Alca Labradora. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 550. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 



793. 



Fratercula. Briss. Orn. 6. 81. pi. 6.J\ 2. 

 Anas arctica. Rail, Syn. 120. A. 



Le Macareux. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 358. pi. 26. Buff. PI 

 Enl. 275. Cm. Reg. Anim. 1.511. 



