Auk, Murres, and Puffins. 



12. Tufted Puffin (Lunda cirrhata). L. 15. Ads., 

 summer. Cheeks white; a pair of long straw color 

 plumes from behind eyes; rest of plumage sooty. 

 Winter. Cheeks sooty, plumes usually absent. Yng. 

 Similar to winter adult, but breast and belly whitish. 



Range. — Northern Pacific; resident locally from Santa Barbara 

 Islands north to Alaska. Accidental in Maine. 



I 3. Puffin [Fratercula arctica). L. 13; W. 6; B. 1.8. 



Ads. Above, and foreneck blackish; cheeks and under 

 parts white; bill in summer touched with bright red. 

 Notes. A hoarse croak. 



Range. — North Atlantic; breeds from Bay of Fundy north to Green 

 land; winters south to Long Island. 



13a. Large-billed Puffin (F. a. glacialis). W. 7: 

 B. 2. 1. Similar to No. 13, but larger. 



Range. — Arctic Ocean from Spitzenberge* to northern Greenland 



14. Horned Puffin {Fratercula corniculata). Simi 

 lar to No. 13, but in summer with the throat blackish 

 Notes. "A hoarse snuffling, rattling note" (Nelson.) 



Range. "Northern Pacific from Kuril Islands to British Colum 

 bia." (A. O. U.) 



I 5. Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monoceratd). L. 

 15.5. Ads., summer. A horn on base of bill; two pairs 

 of white tufts; above blackish; throat and breast gray- 

 ish; belly white. Winter. Similar, but no horn. Yng. 

 Similar to winter ad. but no tufts. 



Range.— "North Pacific: breeding south (formerly) to the Far- 

 allones; In winter south to Lower California and Japan." (A. O. U.) 



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