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Birds. 
THE PUFFIN, (Fratercula arctica,) 
Is another short-winged water bird, but, unlike the 
Northern Diver, it visits us in the summer, and breeds 
on our shores. It is about a foot long, and has the back 
and wings black, the cheeks and all the lower parts of 
the body, except a band round the neck, white, and the 
feet orange. Its bill is very curious, and has obtained 
for it the names of Sea Parrot and Coulterneb in some 
places. This organ is large and strong, but flattened at 
the sides ; it is of a bluish colour, with three grooves and 
four ridges of an orange colour. The Puffin flies swiftly, 
and swims and dives almost as well as the Great Diver ; 
it breeds sometimes in crannies amongst the rocks, and 
sometimes in a hole which it digs in the turf or in a 
rabbit-warren. 
