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The Puffin, Sea parrot or Tinker is recorded by Giraud, DeKay, Law- 

 rence and Chapman as a rare winter visitant to the shores of Long Island. 

 Mr L. S. Foster reported a specimen from Center Moriches, Suffolk county, 

 December 15, 1882; and Dr Braislin, from Montauk, March 30, 1902 [see 

 Auk 20: 50]. The southernmost breeding station of this species is on the 

 coast of Maine, and it rarely migrates further south than the shores of 

 Cape Cod. 



Cepphus grylle (Linnaeus) 

 Black Guillemot 



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A 1 c a grylle Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758. i : 130 

 Uria grylle DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 278, fig. 303 

 C ep ph u s gry 1 1 e A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 27 



cepph'us, Gr. Kfirtftoi, some sea bird; gryl'le, Swedish for this bird 



Description, In winter: Upper parts blackish, all the feathers tipped 

 with white giving a marbled appearance; lesser wing coverts, terminal half 

 of greater coverts and lining of the wing white, the white coverts forming 

 a large white patch; under parts white. Young: Similar, but the under 

 parts mottled with black. Breeding plumage: Sooty black with greenish 

 reflections above; wings as in winter. Length 13 inches; wing 6.25; bill 

 1.2; tarsus 1.25. 



The Black guillemot, sometimes called Sea pigeon is an uncommon 



winter visitant south of Cape Cod. It is mentioned without definite records 



by Giraud and DeKay, and is certainly very rare in this State. There is 



one si)ecimen from the Lawrence Collection, labeled "Long Island" in Mr 



Dutcher's collection, number 1959. The late David Bruce of Brockport, 



N. Y., writes that he has several times picked up the wings of this species 



in the winter drift on the shore of Lake Ontario, and that a specimen in 



the mottled plumage was taken on Lake Ontario in February, 1888, by 



Mr Skillen of Troutberg. 



Cepphus mandti (Lichtenstein) 

 Mandt Guillemot 

 Distinctive marks. Like the Black guillemot, but the greater wing coverts are white to their base, 

 whereas C. grylle has at least the basal half of the greater coverts black, sometimes showing 

 as a black line between the white of the greater and lesser coverts. 



