The food of this curious little bird is fmall fifh and infe£ls ; 
Bewick mentions that the one from which his figure was taken, 
was caught alive on the Durham coaft, and was for a ftiort 
time fed on grain/' 
It breeds in Greenland and the other afore-named places, 
and is faid to lay two eggs ; they are larger than thofe of a 
pigeon, of a blufli white colour." 
About the latter end of May 1812, a fine fpecimen of 
Alca ar£lica (the Puffin) was taken on the Thames near 
Chelfea, by a fifherman, who kept it alive for fome days ; 
we are at lofs to conceive by what unaccountable accident this 
bird Ihould have wandered fo far from the fea coaft, as the 
nearefl place to which the fpecies is known to refort, is the 
cliffs of Dover. 
