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Puffin

the Fratercula arctica, a common English sea bird, with many popular names-bottlenose, coulterneb, pope, sea-parrot, and tammy norie, with others that are only locally known. It is rather larger than a pigeon; plumage glossy black above, under surface pure white; feet orange-red; bill very deep, and flattened laterally, parti-colored red, yellow, and blue, and grooved during the breeding season. Puffins lay a single egg-white, with gray markingsin a burrow.

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