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we have two specimens now before us taken 
alive from off the beach at Cromer (after a 
violent storm) on the fourth day of Novem- 
ber, 1819. There were great numbers 
cast on shore at Wells and other parts of 
the Norfolk Coast. 
On the Isle of St. Margaret the fishermen 
take numbers of these birds by the fol- 
lowing method : they introduce one of 
their hands into the burrow, the Puffin 
seizes the hand and suffers itself to be drawn 
out, without quitting its hold. In other 
places they are taken by ferrets, in the same 
manner as rabbits. 
The Puffin is found in the Feroe and 
Orkney Isles, in Iceland and Greenland. 
In America they frequent Carolina in win- 
ter ; and have been met with in Sandwich 
Sound, where the natives ornament their 
seal skin jackets with the beaks of them ; 
and those of Aoonalaskka wear gowns 
made of their skins, mixed with those of 
other birds. On the coast of Kamtschatka 
and the Kurilschi Islands they are common, 
even on the Penschinski bay, almost as far 
as Ochatka : the natives of the two first wear 
