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BRITISH BIRDS. 
PUFFIN. 
MULLET, COULTERNEB, SEA-PARROT, POPE, OR 
WILLOCK. 
^Aka Ardtcay Lin . — Le Macareux^ BufF.) 
The Puffin weighs about twelve ounces, and 
meafures twelve inches in length, and twenty-one 
in breadth. Its fingular bill looks not unlike a 
kind of {heath flipped over both mandibles, and, 
from its appearance, the bird is not improperly 
named Coulterneb, or Knife-bilL At the bafe, 
where it is about an inch and a half in depth, it is 
rimmed with a white callous border, the two cor- 
ners of which projed above the brow, and below 
the chin. It is about the fame in length, curved 
towards the point, compreifed vertically, very flat, 
and tranfverfely furrowed on the fides } the half of 
