Tom Peregrine shot one a few years back; also a puffin, a bird with a parrot-like beak and of the auk tribe.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs
From the shore we could distinguish Penmaenmawr, puffin Island, Great Orme's Head, Conway Bay, and other interesting spots.
"A Yacht Voyage Round England"
W.H.G. Kingston
We stands thar-I still puffin my pipe, he with his lance raised-an' we looks on each other-I an' that paint-daubed buck!
"Wolfville Nights"
Alfred Lewis