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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Genu S — Fratercula. 
294. Fratercula arctica. Puffin. 
A summer visitor to the coast. 
This bird visits the Freshwater Cliffs to breed in fair 
numbers, arriving in April and leaving at the end of 
August, and rarely occurring in winter. 
Mr. Hart has specimens procured on January 29th, 
1886, and January 4th, 1890. 
Mr. Poole informs us that many are washed up on 
the shores of the Island in winter. 
The late Prebendary Gordon wrote to Kelsall that 
a specimen was found at Hawkley, near Petersfield, in 
November, 1892 ; and the Alton Museum contains another 
obtained at Froyle during the same month. 
The larger form {^F. glacialis) is said to have been once 
met with in the Island ; — see "Zoologist," 1868, p. 6858; 
Venables' " Guide to the Isle of Wight," p. 434 ; and 
"Ibis," 1865, p. 212. 
