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Figure 40.— Tufted puffins. 



Lunda cirrhata: Tufted Puffin 



Attu: Och'-choch 



Kong-o-luch, the young. 

 Atka : OU-chuh oi- OK-chuch 



Uxoux (Jochelson) 

 Russian, Commander Islands: Toporok, Toporki, plural (Stejneger) 



The tufted puffin is even more plentiful than the horned puffin ; 

 it probably is the most abundant single species in the Aleutian 

 district. We noted them in the Barren Islands, Kupreanof and 

 Shelikof Straits, and the Shumagins and Sanak groups. Gabriel- 

 son recorded them in the Semidis. Some islands, such as Uliaga, 

 in the Four Mountains group, contain large numbers of these 

 birds. When a shot is fired, there is a shower of puffins sailing 

 out and down from the high grassy slopes. A small island in 

 Trident Bay of Akun Island was thoroughly honeycombed by 

 puffin burrows. Gabrielson described Bereskin Island, near 

 Akutan, as being honeycombed in the same manner. Many other 

 islands harbor thousands of these birds. They occur on Bogoslof, 

 and Stejneger considered this bird to be the most numerous of 

 the Alcidae in the Commander Islands. 



