THE PUFFIN. 
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have frequently seen an uninterrupted line of them, extending 
full half-way over the bay, or to a distance of more than three 
miles, and so close together that thirty have fallen at one shot. 
This living column, on an average, might have been about six 
yards broad and as many deep. There must have been nearly 
four millions of birds on wing at one time.” These extracts show 
that the individuals occurring in the British seas are mere strag- 
glers from “ high quarters.” 
Audubon gives a very pleasing account of this species, as ob- 
served during his voyages across the Atlantic. ‘ Orn. Biog/ 
vol. iv. p. 304. 
The following note was received too late to be printed in its 
proper place, at p. 208 : — “Guillemots and razorbills breed in 
considerable numbers in holes at inaccessible parts of the cliffs 
between the Beannies and Sovereign Islands on the coast of Cork. 
The former are much more numerous than the latter, and flock 
more together. About fifty feet above the water at Beannie Bay 
there is a small cave in the perpendicular cliff, three or four feet 
in diameter, out of which thirty or forty guillemots commonly 
fly when a shot is fired from a boat.”* 
THE PUEFIN. 
Sea Parrot ; Coulterneb.t 
Fratercula arctica, Linn, (sp.) 
Alca „ 
Mormon fratercula , Temm. 
Is a regular summer visitant to each side of the island. 
The islets called the Maiden's or Hulin rocks, off the entrance to 
* Mr. R. Warren, jnn. 
f Tammie Norrie, provincially in Scotland. By this name it is alluded to by 
Sir Walter Scott in the grand scene in the ‘ Antiquary/ in which the baronet and his 
daughter are near being lost upon the sea-coast. 
