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drowned, and the Puffin returns in triumph to her nest. But 
should the Raven at the first onset get hold of the Coulter- 
neb’s neck, he generally comes off victorious, killing the mother 
and feasting on her eggs or young. The fishermen sometimes 
draw these birds out of their burrows by introtlucing the hand 
into the hole, which is seized by the bird, which suffers itself to 
be pulled out rather than lose its hold. Its bite is, however, 
very severe, and it can when irritated take out a piece of flesh 
from a man’s hand without any extraordinary effort. When 
reared and domesticated, these birds become quite tame, and 
in the end familiar. 
The Puffin breeds on the i.slands at the mouth of the Bay of 
Fundy, and north to Greenland, and in winter is more or less com- 
mon, from Nova Scotia to New Jersey. 
Note. — The Large-hilled Puffin (/^. arctica glacialis) is 
said to breed farther north than true arctiai. 
