872 CERORHYNCHALUNDA 



the eye a line of long narrow white feathers ; bill orange-yellow, the 

 cutting edges of the mandibles dusky ; ridge of culmen and anterior and 

 posterior edges of horn black, corner of mouth white ; legs and feet whitish 

 yellow, dusky at the joints, the back of metatarsi and soles blackish. 

 Gape 1-76, wing 7*4, tail 2*0, tarsus 1'25 inch. Sexes alike. 



Hob. North Pacific from Kamchatka to Japan; the Com- 

 mander Isles, the coasts of Russian Manchuria to Sidemi ; 

 Alaska to Southern California. 



In habits it is said to resemble the Puffins. I do not find any 

 description of its nidification, but 2 eggs in my collection are 

 dull chalky white, and measure 2'72 by T77 and 2'56 by T92 

 respectively. 



LUNDA, Pall., 1811. 



1206. TUFTED PUFFIN. 



LUNDA CIRRHATA. 



Lunda cirrhata (Pall.), Spic. Zool. fasc. v. p. 7, pis. 1 and 5, figs. 1-3 

 (1769) ; id. Zoogr. Ross. As, ii. p. 363, pi. Ixxxii. ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 

 0. p. 1243 j (Seebohm), B. Jap. Emp. p. 281 ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. 

 B. Br. Mus. xxvi. p. 612 ; Eidgway, p. 10. 



Toporak, Russ. 



$ ad. (Bering Island). General colour deep black, the under parts 

 below the breast duller and rather paler ; base of bill and anterior half of 

 face white ; above the eye a long bunch of silky straw-coloured feathers ; 

 terminal portion of bill deep orange-red, the basal part light olive-green, 

 almost apple-green along the ridge of the culmen ; angle of mouth and a 

 narrow strip of skin between the bill and feathering of the face, and ring 

 round the eye vermilion ; legs and feet bright red ; iris white. Gape 1*85, 

 wing 7; 8, tail 2-4, tarsus T25 inch. Sexes alike. In winter the sides of 

 the head are dusky, and the straw-yellow tufts above the eyes are absent. 



Hob. North Pacific, from Kamchatka ; the Commander and 

 Kurile Isles ; the Sea of Ochotsk to Japan ; on the American 

 side from Alaska to Southern California ; of accidental occur- 

 rence in Maine, U.S., and off Greenland. 



In habits it closely resembles our Puffin, and its note is an 

 angry crrrr. It nests in crannies in the rocks, and its egg is 

 dull chalky white, sometimes finely dotted with reddish brown, 

 and measures about 2*86 by 1*92. 



