THE BIRD BOOK 



12. Tri'TEi) Pri-Fix. T.nnda cirrhata. 



Range. — Pacific Coast from Alaska southward 

 to southern California, })reeding locally through- 

 out their range. 



Tufted Puffins are the largest of the Puffins. 

 In the breeding plumage, they are a sooty brown- 

 ish or black color; tlie cheeks are white, and a 

 long tuft of straw colored feathers extends back 

 from each eye; the bill is bright red and green- 

 ish yellow. They breed commonly on the Faral- 

 lones, where two or three broods are raised by a 

 bird in a single season, but much more abund- 

 antly on the islands In tlie north. Their single 

 eggs are laid in burrows in the ground or else in 



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natural crevices formed by the rocks. The eggs are pure white or pale buff 

 and are without gloss. They very often have barely perceptible shell markings 

 of dull purplish color. The eggs are laid about the middle of June. Size 2.80 

 X 1.90. Data. — Farallone Is., May 27, 1887. Single egg laid in crevice of rocks. 

 Collector, W. O. Emerson. 



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13. Puffin. Fraterciila arctica arctica. 



Range.^ — North Atlantic Coast, breeding from the Bay of Fundy nortliward. 

 Winters from breeding range along the New England Coast. 



The common Puffin has the cheeks, chin and underparts white; upper parts 

 and a band across the throat, blackish. Bill deep and thin, and colored with 

 red, orange and yellow. They breed in large numbers on Bird Rock in the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence. The nest is either among the natural crevices of the 



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