BIRDS. PALMIPEDES. 



head, all the upper part, and a large collar surrounding the neck 

 of a deep lustrous black ; quills blackish -brown ; a broad band 

 above the eyes, and the throat clear gray j breast and belly 

 white ; bill compressed^ cinereous at the base, yellow in the mid- 

 dle, and red at the point ; upper mandible with three grooves, 

 the under with two ; naked margins of the eyes red ; legs orange. 

 12^ inches long. Northern Europe. B Shaw, xiii. pi. 4. 



M. glacialis, Tern. Northern Puffin. Body black ; cheeks slaty- 

 white ; breast and abdomen white ; bill pale, with the base black. 

 Inhabits Northern Regions. Shan 1 , xiii. 40. 



M. cirrhata, Tern. Tufted Puffin. Body dusky ; forehead, sides 

 of the head and throat white ; eyebrows white, with an elongat- 

 ed crest rising over each eye. 19 inches long. Inhabits Kamt- 

 schatka. Shatv, xiii. 40. 



Gen. 23. ALCA, Lin. 



Bill straight, broad, compressed, much bent towards the tip, 

 both mandibles half covered with feathers, and grooved near 

 the point, the upper hooked, the lower forming a salient 

 angle ; nostrils lateral, marginal, linear, situated near the 

 middle of the bill, almost entirely closed by a membrane, and 

 covered with feathers ; legs short, placed far behind, with 

 three toes directed forwards and palmated ; wings short. 



The Auks have nearly the same habits as the other marine arctic birds, seldom 

 being seen on land, except for the purpose of breeding, and resembling the Guille- 

 mots, in particular, in their mode of life, and in laying one large egg. 



A. torda, Lin. Razor-lulled Auk. Body black, beneath from the 

 middle of the throat white ; a white line on each side from the 

 bill to the eyes ; wings ending at the rump ; tail in the form of 

 an elongated cone, 14J inches long. Inhabits Arctic Regions. 

 B. Dow. Brit. Birds, iii. pi. 64. 



A. impennis, Lin. Great Auk or Penguin. Body black ; under 

 parts from the middle of the throat, the tips of the secondary 

 quills, and an ovate spot before the eyes, white ; wings destitute 

 of feathers capable of flight ; tail short. 2 feet 1 or 2 inches 

 long. Inhabits Northern Regions. Shaw, xiii. pi. 6. 



Gen, 24 SPHENISCUS, Briss. Aptenodytes, Lath. Eudyptes> 



Vieill. 



Bill shorter than the head, compressed, very thick, strong, 

 straight, hooked at the tip, obliquely grooved ; edges of both 

 mandibles bent inwards, the under covered with feathers at 

 the base, and truncated, or obtuse at the tip ; nostrils small, 

 lateral, placed near the middle of the bill, and cleft in the 

 furrow ; legs very short, thick, placed very far behind ; four 

 toes directed forwards, of which three are webbed, and the 

 fourth is little more than a tubercle; wings incapable of flight. 



