PUFFIN. 
SEA PARROT. 
Fratercula ARCTICA. 
Char. Upper parts black or dusky, a band of same across the neck ; 
cheeks and under parts white. l,ength about 12 inches. 
Nesl. In a crevice of a cliff or in a burrow. 
i; dull white, marked with pale brown and lilac; average .size 
2.40 X 1.70. 
The Puffin is a general inhabitan': of the cold and inclement 
regions of the whole northern hemisphere. On the coasts of 
northern Europe it is met with to the Icy Sea. It is found 
in Iceland, Greenland, Spitzbergen, and the Faroe Isles ; 
on the coast of Kamtschatka and the Kuriles it is also 
common. In the temperate climates of Great Britain, as well 
as in the Shetland and Orkney Isles, it likewise breeds in 
large communities, as at the Fame Isles, off the coast of 
