. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . ttling with the strong north wind that has thrownit in our way, faint from hunger and wearied from the protractedstruggle. Its wings are small, but they are moved almost asrapidly as a Humming Birds, and propel the bird through the airwith great rapidity. This bird is an expert diver too, and thoughawkward on the land, swims with easy grace ; and when wearied,it tucks its head beneath its little wing, and rocked in the cradle ofthe deep, sleeps as calmly and serenely as do human children upontheir mothers breast. When hungry,
. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . ttling with the strong north wind that has thrownit in our way, faint from hunger and wearied from the protractedstruggle. Its wings are small, but they are moved almost asrapidly as a Humming Birds, and propel the bird through the airwith great rapidity. This bird is an expert diver too, and thoughawkward on the land, swims with easy grace ; and when wearied,it tucks its head beneath its little wing, and rocked in the cradle ofthe deep, sleeps as calmly and serenely as do human children upontheir mothers breast. When hungry, these little children of thesea draw their food from the oceans bosom. The Litde Auk nests only north of the Arctic Circle, and thereassembles in vast communities, and fills the air with its wild note,which bears some resemblance to the syllables al-le. These birds are seen on our shores only in winter, and thenstraggle as far south as New Jersey. Occasionally an example isblown inland by a gale, one having been found as far away fromthe sea as the Detroit PUFFIN. SEA PARROT. Fratercula arctic a. Char. Upper parts black or dusky, a band of same across the neck;cheeks and under parts white. Length about 12 inches. Nest. In a crevice of a cliff or in a burrow. Egg. I; dull white, marked with pale brown and lilac; average X The Puffin is a general inhabitant of the cold and inclementregions of the whole northern hemisphere. On the coasts ofnorthern Europe it is met with to the Icy Sea. It is foundin Iceland, Greenland, Spitzbergen, and the Faroe Isles;on the coast of Kamtschatka and the Kuriles it is alsocommon. In the temperate climates of Great Britain, as wellas in the Shetland and Orkney Isles, it likewise breeds inlarge communities, as at the Fame Isles, off the coast of PUFFIN. 407 Northumberland, Priestholm Isle, near Anglesea, the smallislands off St. Davids in Wales, the Isle of Wight, the cliffs ofBeachy Head, Dover, Scarborough, and in the vicinit
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