Auks, 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. 



I3a. Large-billed Puffin (F. a. glacialis). W. 7; 



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



Range. Arctic Ocean from Spltzenbergen to northern Greenland. 



1 4. Horned Puffin (Fratercula cormculata). 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.) 



15. Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhincamonocerata). 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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