532 



THE DIVING- BIRDS — PYGOPODES. 



Lunda cirrhata. 



THE TUFTED PUFFIN. 



Alca cirrhata. Pall. Spie. Zool.V. 1769, 7, pi. 1 and pi. 2, figs. 1, 2, 3. 



Lunda cirrhata, Pall. Zoog. Rosso- As. II. 1826, 303, pi. 82. — Corns, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliilad. 1868, 



26. — Ridgw. Nom. X. Am. B. 1881, no. 745. 

 Mormon cirrluUa, Bonap. Synop. 1828, 429. — Aud. Om. Biog. HI. 1835, 36, pi. 249, figs. 1, 2; 



B. Am. VII. 1844. 234, pi. 402. —Cass, in Baird's 15. N. Am. 185S, 902. — Baihd, Cat. N. Am. B. 



1859, no. 712. — Dall & Bannist. Tr. Chicago Ac. Sci. I. 1869, 308. 

 Fratercula cirrhata, Stephens, Gen. Zool. XIII. 1S25, 40. — Coues, Key, 1S72, 341; Check List, 



1873, no. 716; Elliot's' Alaska, 1S75, 203. 

 Fratercula cirrata, (.'mis, 2d Check List, 18S2, no. 856. 

 Sagmatorhina Lathami, Bonap. P. Z. S. 1851, 202, pi. 44 (young). — Coles, Pr. Ac. Xat. Sci. Philad. 



1868, 31, fig. 3. 

 Sagmatorhina labradoria, Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1S58, 904 (not of Gjiel. ). — Baikd, Cat. 



N. Am. B. 1859, no. 716. 

 Fratercula carinala, Vig. Zool. Journ. IV. 358. 



Hab. Coasts ami islands of the North Pacific, from California (south of San Francisco Bay) 

 to Alaska, and across, through Aleutian chain, to Kamtschatka and Japan ; also coasts and islands 

 of Behring's Sea. Occurrence in the Arctic Ocean far from Behring's Straits doubtful, but exam- 

 ples said to have been taken on the Kennebec River, Me. (Audubon), and in the Bay of Fundy 



Summer adult. 



(Verrill). On the Pacific coast breeding at least as far south as the Farallon Islands, coast of 

 California. 



Sp. Char. Adult, breeding-plumage: Upper parts uniform deep black ; lower surface fuliginous- 

 dusky, sometimes with the feathers on the breast aud abdomen grayish white beneath the surface, 

 but the entire sides, with whole under ami lateral portions of head and neck, always uniform dark 

 fuliginous. Feathers bordering the bill, all round, with entire loral and orbital regions, .lull white ; 

 on each side the crown, above and behind the eyes, a tuff of much elongated, narrow, filamentous 

 feathers of a straw-yellow or pale huff color. Terminal portion of bill bright salmon-red (more or 

 less tinged with brownish posteriori) ). the basal part light olive-green, the deciduous culminal ridge 

 more apple-green ; narrow rim of naked skin around base of bill, together with rosette at corner of 



