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PUFFINS. 



e. Puffins. Fraterculao 



Thick-bodied, short-necked birds with a deep, much 

 compressed bill which gives them a parrot-like appearance. 

 Eyelid, with horny appendages, fig. 17. 



1. PUFFIN, F. ARCTICA. 13.00 long; a broad collar 

 around neck ; upper parts and sides, brownish-black ; sides 

 of head and chin, ashy ; white beneath ; bill, bluish with the 

 ridges orange; feet, coral red. Young, similar, but the bill 

 is smaller, without ridges, and dusky; Fig. 17. 



cheeks, dusky. The single egg is placed 

 in a burrow excavated by the bird, 

 white, occasionally mottled with green- 

 ish. Very social, friendly birds when 

 breeding. When annoyed utter a croak- 

 ing cry. Breed in July from the Bay 

 of Fundy northward; comes south in 

 Oct. to N. J. ; goes north in April. In 

 winter keeps well out to sea, rarely ap- 

 proaching land, excepting islands or 

 points that project into the ocean. 



1*. LARGE-BILLED PUFFIN, F. O, A, e, 1. 1-6. 

 A. GLACIALIS. Similar to 1, but a little larger with the bill 

 proportionately larger. Coasts and islands of the Arctic 

 Ocean, northern and western Greenland ; probably ranging 

 southward in winter. 



f . Crested Puffins. Lunda. 



Both sides of head in breeding season with a large, pen- 

 dent tuft of silky, straw-colored feathers ; general form of 

 bill as in e, but the under mandible is without grooves, and 

 there are no horny appendages on eyelid^, 



1. TUFTED PUFFIN, L. CIRRHATA. Differs from a. 

 1 in being sooty gray beneath in all stages. Coasts and is- 

 lands of the north Pacific ; accidental in the Bay of Fundy 

 and Kennebeck River, Me. 



