472 

 NATATORES. 



ALCAD^. 



ALCAD^E. 



THE PUFFIN, 



SEA PARROT, AND COULTERNEB. 



Prater cula arctica. 



Alca arctica, The Puffin, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 152. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 181. 



Fratercula Common Coulterneb, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 1 30. 



Puffin, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 439. 



The JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 260. 



Mormon fratercula, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Macareau moine, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 933. 



FKATERCULA. Generic Characters. Bill shorter than the head, higher 

 than long, very much compressed, both mandibles arched, transversely 

 grooved, notched towards the point ; the culmen as high as the top of the 

 head, and with a cutting edge. Nostrils lateral, marginal, linear, naked, 



