MANKS PUFFIN". 
This curious water-fowl is a species of the 
Petrel, and of the family of the Puffins. It is 
the Procellaria Puffinus, or Puffin Petrel, of 
Linnaeus, Gmelin, and Buffon ; the Puffinus, 
of Brisson; the Puffinus Anglorum, of Rayr 
the Avis Diomedea, of Gesner, Aidrovandus, 
and Johnston ; the Laurus Piger Cunicularis, 
of Klein ; the Sterna Medica, of Brown ; the 
Shear- Water Petrel, of Willughby, Pennant, 
aad Latham ; and the Manks Puffin, or Puffin 
of the Isle of Man, of Johnston, Willughby, 
and Edwards. 
This last naturalist describes it as generically 
different from the Puffin of the Isle of Wight- 
The bill," he says, is straight, a little 
hooked at the point, and of a dark lead colour». 
The nostrils are near together in the upper- 
part of the bill, in a kind of skin that covers 
it's basis. From the nostrils passes, on each 
side of the bill, a furrow reaching almost to 
it's point ; the lower mandible has, also, a fur- 
row on each side, lengthways. The bill is a 
tittle compressed sideways, but most so tov^^ards 
it's 
