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Show Bird3 That Burrow. Persons are not accustomed to think of birds as burrowing animais, but the puffin answers to that description. It Is a chunky little fowl, less than a foot high, with a large and powerful beak. For a home It scratches a hole in the ground sometimes as much as four feet deep. To capture a puffin one must go digging. It is rather a Job; and, inasmuch as the bird bites and claws fiercely, one is likely to suffer in the process. Thus the crea- Y ture has maintained Its numbers on many a lonely rockery, where other species of wild fowl have been killed off and exterminated. |