PUFFIN,. OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 
Talists, the Coulterneb. In the Kamtschadale 
language, it is termed Ypatka ; in the Norwe- 
gian, and in the Feroe Islands, Lunde, Soe- 
Papegay, the Chicken Lund-Toeller ; and, m 
Greenland, Killengak. 
" The Puffin," says Edwards, *^ has the 
bill broad and fiat, much compressed sideways, 
contrary to that of the Duck. The nostrils 
are remarkably near the line dividing the two 
mandibles of the bill. A yellow skin round 
the angle of the mouth extends a little way on 
the sides of the head. Round the basis of the 
upper maudible, is a callous substance, of a 
whitish colour; full of'pun6tures, as if pricked 
with a needle. Each m.andible has a blue tri- 
angular mark near it's basis : these blue spaces 
are divided from the point of the bill, whicli 
is of a bright red, by a deep furrow ; and there 
are two furrows more, between this and the 
bill, not so deep. The bill is pretty sharply 
ridged, both above and beneath. T he inside 
of the mouth is yellow. The eyes are of a 
dark colour; the eyelids, reddish. Above 
and beneath the eye, are horny substances of 
a blueish colour, adhering to the eyehds : that 
above. 
