612 ALC^. 



upper maadible transversely grooved, the lower mandible entire, 

 and the basal outline of the terminal portion of the upper mandible 

 convex. Inter-ramal feathering scarcely extending to a vertical 

 line drawn from the posterior border of the nasal opening, which is 

 distant from the feathers on the lores by more than its entire length. 

 Tail composed of 1 6 feathers. Metatarsus shorter than the middle 

 toe and claw ; the inner claw much more strongly curved than the 

 rest. During the breeding-season a deciduous saddle-shaped shield, 

 widest towards the ridge of the culmen, covers the base of the bill, 

 and on each side of the crown there is a lengthened crest of silky 

 golden feathers. 



Eanqe. Coasts and islands of the North Pacific and Bering Sea : 

 from North Japan, the Kurile Islands and Kamschatka to the Com- 

 mander Group, across Bering 8ea to Alaska, and south to Lower 

 California. It has been met with on the coast of Maine and off 

 Greenland. 



1. Lunda cirrhata. 



Alca cirrhata, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fasc. v. p. 7, pis. i. & v. figs. 1-3 

 (1769) [Kamschatka] ; Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 5.53 (1788) ; Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. ii. p. 791 (1790) ; Bonnat. Tahl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 32, 

 pi. X. fig. 4, pi. xi. fig. 1 (1790) ; Moschler, J.f. O. 1856, p. 335 

 [Greenland] ; G. R. Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 96 (1871) ; Bolau, 

 J.f. O. 1880, p. 132. 

 Le Macareux de Kamtchatka, D^Aubent. PL Enl. x. pi. 52 [uo. 761]; 



B^(ff. Hist. Nat. ix. p. 368 (1783). 

 Tufted Auk, Pemiant, Arct. Zool. ii. p. 513 (1785) ; Lath. Gen. Syn. 

 iii. pt. i. p. 313, pi. xcv. tig. 1 (1785) ; id. Gen. Hist. x. p. 57, 

 pi. 170. fig. 1 (1824). 

 Lunda cirrhata, Pallas. Zoogr. Rosso- As. ii. p. 363, pi. Ixxxii. (1811) ; 

 G. R. Grai/, List of B. pt. iii. p. 152 (1844) ; Reichenb. Natatores, 

 pi. V. figs." 29-31 (1850) ; Coinde, Rev. May. Zool. 1860, p. 403 

 [St. Paul I.]; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, vi. Urinat. p. 27 (1867); 

 Coues, P. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 26; Peh. Ibis, 1873, p. 46 [Kams- 

 chatka] ; Dyboivski, Bull. Soc. Z. Fr. vii. p. 297 (1882); id. Orn. 

 Centralbl. 1882, p. 40; id. Bull. Soc. Z. Fr. viii. p. 348 (1883) ; 

 Nelson, Cruise Corunii, p. 115 (1883) ; Baird, Breiv. i$- Ridgio. 

 Wuter-B. N. Amer. ii. p. 532 (1884) ; Dyboxcski S>- Tacz. Bull. Soc. 

 Z. Fr. ix. p. 147.(1884) ; Turner, Auk, ii. p. 159 (1885) [Nearer 

 Is., Alaska] ; Allen, Auk, ii. p. 388 (1885) [Coast of Maine and 

 Greenland ; accidental] ; Stejn. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 43, 

 pis. i. & ii. (1885) [Commander Is.] ; A. O. U. Check-l. p. 77 

 (1886) ; Ridyw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 10 (1887) ; Nelson, Rep. N. 

 H. Alaska, p. 38, pi. ii. tig. 5 (1887) ; Palmen, Veqa-Exped. 

 Vetensk. lakttay. v. p. 402 (1887); Stejn. P. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. 

 p. 119 (1887) [Commander Is.]; Lav-rence, Auk, ix. p. 41 (1892) 

 [Washington, D.C.] ; Tacz. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. xxxix. p. 124.3 

 (1893) [E. Siberia]; Grinnell, Auk, xv. p. 124 (1898) [Sitka]; 

 Scale, P. Ac. Philad. 1898, p. 127. 

 Mormon cirrata, Naumann, Isis, 1821, p. 781, pi. vii. fig. 1. 

 Fratercula cirrhata, Vieill. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 240, pi. 296 (1825) ; Steph. 

 in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. i. p. 40 (1826) ; Viyors, Zool. Journ. 



