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THE DIVING BIRDS - PYGOPODES. 



Lunda cirrhata. 



THE TUFTED PUFFIN. 



J/ca cirrhata, Pall. Spic Zool. V. ]7t;'.t, 7, pi. 1 aiul pi. 2, ligs. 1, 2, 3. 



Lunda cirrhnia, P.u.l. Zoog. Rosso-As. 11. 1826, 363, pi. 82. -Couks, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliilad. 1868, 



26. — Kiixjw. Noin. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 745. 

 Murmoit drrhala, Bonai'. Synop. 1828, 429. —Aui). Orii. liio-. ill. 1835, 36, pi. 249, li-.s. 1, 2; 



B. Am.VII. 1844, 234, j.!. 462. -Cass. in Painl's B. N. Am. 1858, 902. — Baikh, Cat. N. Am. 15. 



1859, no. 712. — Dall & Banni.st. Tr. Chicago Ac. Sci. I. 1869, 308. 

 Fralcrcula cirrhata, Stki-hkns, Gen. Zool. XIII. 1825, 40.-C()UES, Key, 1872, 341; Check List, 



1873, no. 716; Elliot's Alaska, 1875, 203. 

 Fralcrcula cirratn, Couks, 2il Check List, 1882, no. 856. 

 Sagmatorhina Lathami, B.)NAI'. V. Z. 8. 1851, 202, pi. 44 (yonng). -CouEi>, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 



1868, 3L lig. 3. 

 Sagmatorhina labradoria, Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 904 (not of Gmel.). -Baikd, Cat. 



N. Am. B. 1859, no. 716. 

 Fratcrcula carinala, Vig. Zool. Journ. IV. 358. 



Hab. Coasts and ishuids of tlie Noith Pacific, from California (south of San Francisco Bay) 

 to Alaska, and across, through Aleutian chain, to Kanitschatka and Jai)an ; also coasts and islands 

 uf Behring's Sea. Occurrence in the Arctic Ocean far from Behi'ing's Straits doubtful, but exam- 

 ples said to have been taken on the Kennebec River, Me. (xVuDUBo^s), and in the Bay of Fundy 



Summer adult. 



(Verrill). On the Pacific coast breeding at least as far south as the Farallon Islands, coast of 

 California. 



Sp. Char. Adult, brcedinri-plumar/e : Upper parts uniform deep black ; lower surface fuliginous- 

 dusky, sometimes with the feathers on the Ijreast and alxlomen grayish white beneath the surface, 

 but the entire sides, with whole under and lateral portions of head and neck, always uniform dark 

 fuliginous. Feathers bordering the l)ill, all round, with entire loral and orbital regions, dull white ; 

 on each side the crown, above and behind the eyes, a tuft of much elongated, narrow, filamentous 

 feathers of a straw-yellow or pale buff" color. Terminal jioilion of bill bright salmon-red (more or 

 less tinged with brownish postericnly), the Itasal part light olive-green, the deciduous culminal lidge 

 more apple-green ; nuiiow rim of naked skin around Ijase of bill, together with rosette at corner of 



