532 



THE DIVING BIRDS - PYGOPODES. 



Lunda cirrhata. 



THE TUFTED PUFFIN. 



Jka cirrhata, Pall. Spic. Zool. V. 170!), 7, pi. 1 .'uul pi. 2, ligs. 1, 2, 3. 



Lunda cirrluUa, Pall. Zoog. Rosso-As. II. 1826, 303, pi. 82. — Couics, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliilad. 1868, 



26. — RiDOW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 745. 

 Mormon cirrhata, Bo.VAi'. Syiiop. 1828, 429. —Aud. Orn. Biog. III. 1835, 36, i)l. 249, Wgs. 1, 2; 



B. Am. VII. 1844, 234, pi. 462. —Cass, in B:iird'.s B. N. Am. 1858, 902. — Baiud, Cat. N. Am. B. 



1859, no. 712. — Dall & Bannist. Tr. Chioago Ac. Sci. I. 1869, 308. 

 Fratcrcula cirrhata, Stei'IIENS, Gen. Zdol. XIII. 1825, 40. — CoUKs, Key, 1872, 341; Ciicck List, 



1873, no. 716 ; Elliot's Ala.ska, 1875, 203. 

 Fratcrcula cirrata, CouES, 2 J Check List, 1882, no. 856. 

 Sagmatorhina Lathami, BoNAP. P. Z. S. 1851, 202, pi. 44 (young). — CouES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 



1868, 31, fig. 3. 

 Sarjmatorhina labradoria, Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 904 (not of Gmel. ). — Baikd, Cat. 



N. Am. B. 1859, no. 716. 

 Fratcrcula carinata, Vig. Zool. Journ. IV. 358. 



IIab. Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from California (south of San Francisco Bay) 

 to Alaska, and across, through Aleutian cliain, to Kanitschatka and Japan ; also coasts and islands 

 of Beliring's Sea. Occurrence in the Arctic Ocean far from Behring's Straits doubtful, but exam- 

 ples said to have been taken on the Kennebec River, Me. (Audubon), and in the Bay of Fundy 



Summer adult. 



(Verrill). On the Pacific coast breeding at least as far south as the Farallon Islands, coast of 

 California. 



Sp. Char. Adult, brceding-plumarje : Upper parts uniform deep black ; lower surface fuliginous- 

 dusky, sometimes with the feathers on the breast and abdomen grayish white beneath the surface, 

 but the entire sides, witli whole under and lateral portions of liead and neck, always uniform dark 

 fuliginous. Feathers bordering the bill, all round, with entire loral and orbital regions, dull white ; 

 on each side the crown, above and behind the eyes, a tuft of much elongated, narrow, filamentous 

 feathers of a straw-yellow or pale buff" color. Terminal portion of bill bright salmon-red (more or 

 less tinged witli browni.sh posteriorly), the basal part light olive-green, the deciduous culminal ridge 

 more apple-green ; narruw rim of naked skin around base cjf l)ill, together with rosette at corner of 



