PUFFIN. 
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An adult Puffin in the full breeding-plumage is represented in tlie Plate ; the eolouring of the soft 
parts, whieh may possibly he found to differ from the figures in certain works, was taken from a sketch 
made within a few minutes of the death of the bird, which Avas shot at the Bass on the 10th of August, 1874. 
IVitli regard to the age of the juvenile, I can offer no opinion, never liaviiig succeeded in keeping this species 
in confinement for any length of time : the specimen whose portrait is given was caught off Brighton 
on July 1st, 1871 ; I remarked that in every particular it corresponded with others obtained at various 
dates during autumn and winter. It is needless to state the colours on the beak, feet, or legs of the 
adult ; and tliose of the immature bird are also plainly shown in the Plate. On the 13th of February, 
1883, I examined a specimen, the soft parts of which may be described as follows : —Iris dark brown; 
no circle round the eye. Upper mandible a red-hrown at the base, turning into a darker hronm at the 
point ; loAver mandible a livid slate tint near the base, turning into a warm brown towards the point. 
Inside of mouth and tongue pale yelloAA^ The legs a livid blue at the knee-joint; yellow tinge down 
fore part of tarsi and a livid flesh on the back part. "VVebs a dusky olive-yellow; toes yelloAA', with 
tlie exception of the outer on each foot, which was of a pale livid flesh-tint ; nails black. 
Though various other names are bestoAved on this species, it is only as Tommie Nories on the east 
coast of Scotland, and Tammie Rookies on the west, that I have heard these birds spoken of by the 
natives of the localities in which they abound. 
