PUFFIN, OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 
The voice of theP-iffin is said to be disagree- 
able, and seems as if h cost it an effort. The 
Male differs not from the Female, except that 
his colours are deeper. Their weight is about 
twelve ounces. The size of the egg is equal 
to that of a Hen. 
The Viscount de Querhoent, in a letter to 
Buffon, dated June 29, 1781, says — "the 
Puffin is known on this coast [that of Croisic] 
under the name of Gode, and occurs at all sea- 
sons. It seldom comes to land, and then only 
on tlie neare:-t .shore. It nestles in the holes 
cf craggy rock:i, especially near Belle-Isle, at 
the place called the Old Castle : it there lays 
on the bare ground three egos." It is found in 
the whole of the Gulph of Gascogay." 
If this account be corre6t, that of it's laying 
only a single egg, as gen^raliy agreed by na- 
turaiit^ts, must necessarily be an error : but we 
suspect that the Count De Querhcent may have 
related, in this res'ped^, only what he had been 
iiiformed. 
