MANKS PUFFIN. 
known. The Fulmar of St. Kilda is one of 
them, though described with a back toe j the 
figure in Martin's voyage to St. Kilda, has 
only the claw. I am persuaded, that this 
bird, and the Shear- W ater of Sir Thomas 
Brown of Norwich, are identically the same," 
The Manks Puffin, or Puffins of the Isle 
of Man, breed in a small islet, called the Calf 
of Man, in holes from which they drive the 
rabbits, and probably devour their young. In 
, these retreats the young Puffins are found, in 
most prodigious numbers. The old ones quit 
their residence at break of day, and return not 
till the evening. AH this time they are dili- 
gently employed in fishiag for their young ; 
.so that their retreats on land, where they are 
loud and clamorous in the morning, remain 
still and quiet, with not a wing stirring, till 
the approach of dusk, when their screams 
announce their return. Whatever fish, or 
other food, they have procured in the day, 
beginning to suffer a kind of half-digestion, 
and being reduced to an oily matter, is eje£led 
from the stomach of the old ones into the 
mouth of the young. By this they are nou- 
rished. 
