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mandible being without Gnathidia, and formed, as it were, 

 of a single plate doubled together, the ridge or culmen, in 

 the adults, presenting no appearance of suture. The base 

 of the upper mandible is also on the same line with the fore- 

 head, the latter having no antiae ; and the nostrils are situat- 

 ed on the lower part of the smooth space of the beak, imme- 

 diately in front of the basilar ridge. These birds are inha- 

 bitants of the arctic circle, penetrating to rather high lati- 

 tudes ; and in their habits and mode of life, bearing a strong 

 resemblance to the preceding genera. They breed in bur- 

 rows, or under hollow stones, and lay one egg. Nearly al- 

 lied to this genus, and intermediate between it and the Auks, 

 is the genus Phalaris of TEMMINCK. containing several spe- 

 cies which were also formerly included in the Linnean genus 

 Alca. 



COMMON PUFFIN. 



FRATERCULA ARCTIC 'A, Steph. 

 PLATE LXXXIIL* 



Fratercula arctica, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 13. 37- pL 4. fig. 1 Flem. Br. 



Anim. 1. 130. No. 205. 

 Alca arctica, Linn. Syst. 1. 211 Gmel. Syst. 1. 549 Lath. Ind. Ornith. 



2. 792. sp. 3. 



Alca labradora, Gmel. Syst. 1. 550 Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 793. sp. 4. 

 Mormon Fratercula, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 933. 

 Fratercula, Briss. 6. 81. t. 6. f. 2. 

 Le Macareux, Buff. Ois. 9. 358. 26. 

 Macareux moine, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 933. Lesson, Man. d'Ornith. 



2. 364. 



Der arktische Alk, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 723. 

 Graukehliger Alk, Meyer, Tasschenb. 2. 442. 

 Labrador Auk, Lath. Syn. 5. 318 Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 428. 

 Puffin, Penn. Br. ZooL 2. 512. No. 232. Arct. Zool. 2. 427. Albinos 



Birds, 2. pL 78. 79 Edwards' Glean, pi. 358. f. 1 Lath. Syn. 5. 314. 



Lewin's Br. Birds, 6. pi. 225. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Sup Bewick's 



Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 404 Pult. Cat. Dorset. 17- Low's Faun. 



Oread. 101. 

 Common Coulter-neb, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 130. No. 205.Jtennie''s Mont. 



Orn. Diet. 103. 

 Arctic Puffin, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 13. 39. 



PROVINCIAL Pope, Mullet, Coulterneb, Gulder-head, Bottle-nose, 

 Marrot, Sea Parrot, Tammie None, Tommy-nody, Tommey, 

 Bass Cock, Ailsa Cock, Cockandy. 



