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Razorbills, and so forth, however, bite severely if handled, and 
the first-named will fight with each other to the death. 
As will be seen, the colour of both sexes in summer is black 
or dusky, varied by white, and occasionally brown; the winter 
plumage being duller and less decorative, and resembling the 
garb of the young. The size varies from that of the Great 
Auk to that of the Least or Knob-billed Auklet, the Family being 
confined to the Palaearctic and Nearctic Regions. 
Lunda cirrata, the Tufted Puffin, ranging from South 
California to Japan, and straying to Eastern America, is sooty 
above and greyish below; the sides of the head being white 
anteriorly, a “rosette” of naked red skin adorning the gape, and 
a nuptial tuft of long straw-coloured feathers hanging from above 
each eye. The feet are red, and become flesh-coloured in winter. 
The highly compressed bill is red in front and yellowish behind ; 
while its base consists of three portions, separated from each 
other and from the transversely grooved fore-part by furrows, 
which deepen until the pieces become detached and expose a 
soft brownish skin, that hardens again towards spring. Fratercula 
arctica, the Puffin, occupies in vast numbers many of the pre- 
cipitous coasts and islands of Britain, laying its large, dull white, 
granulated egg—faintly marked with brown and speedily be- 
erimed—in a rock-crevice, or a burrow,often made by the bird itself. 
The upper parts and gorget are black, the cheeks greyish, the lower 
surface white, the rosettes yellow, and the feet orange-red. The 
base of the huge compressed and grooved bill, blue, yellow, and red 
in colour, is shed in nine pieces towards winter, when the cheeks 
become white, the rosettes reddish, and a blunt, fleshy, horn-like 
appendage on the upper eyelid also disappears. This species 
breeds northwards in the Atlantic, from the Bay of Fundy and the 
Berlengas off the Tagus, and (as the larger form F. glacialis) 
eastwards to Novaya Zemlya, migrating a little further south: in 
the Pacific, F. corniculata, with longer horns and more developed 
deciduous bill-sheath, takes its place. 
Cerorhyncha monocerata, the Rhinoceros Auklet of the 
North Pacific and western North America, has a stout, curved 
orange and black bill, with a large compressed horn between the 
nostrils, and an accessory piece on the mandible; the upper parts 
are dusky, the lower whitish with plumbeous cheeks and throat, 
while a row of narrow white feathers decorates each side of the 
