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BRITISH BIRDS. 
become extremely fat, and are taken and faked 
down for keeping, and that the Romilh church 
permitted them to be eaten in lent. He adds fur- 
ther refpeding the young ones : — When they 
come to their growth, they who are intrufted by 
the lord of the ifland (the Earl of Derby) to draw 
them out of the rabbit-holes, that they may the 
more readily know and keep account of the num- 
ber they take, cut off one foot, and referve it, 
which gave occafion to that fable, that the Puffins 
are fmgle-footed. They ufually fell them for about 
nine-pence the dozen, a very cheap rate.’^ 
The above figure- was taken from a fluffed fpeci* 
men in the Wycliffe Mufeum. 
