PIGMY, AND TUFTED AUK. , 513 



A With the bill black and ridged : crown, upper part of the 431. Pvcmt. 



neck, back, wings, and tail, dufky : under fide of the neck 

 and breaft of a deep iron grey : belly of a dirty white : legs dullcy. 

 Size of the Water OuzeJ. 



Seen in Vaft multitudes about Bird IJland, between AJla and Ame- Place. 



rica. 



Alca Cirrhata, Pallas, Spicil. Zool, fafc. v. 7. tab. i. — Latham, ill. 432. Tufted, 



— Lev, Mus. 



A With a ftrong thick bill, of a fub-triangular form, arched, 

 hooked near the end -, the lower mandible truncated ; the 

 upper mandible, near the bafe, rifing into a diftinft prominence: the 

 bill of the male marked with three furrows ■, of the female with 

 two : its colors a fine red, yellow, and corneous : from the fides of 

 the head are two long filky tufts of a yellow color, falling down 

 the fides of the neck to the back : cheeks white : the refl: of the 

 plumage entirely black ; lighteft beneath : legs of a bright red. In . 

 Size fuperior to the Puffin Aiik. 



Inhabits only the fhores of Kamtfchafka, the Kurik iflands^ and 

 thofe intervening between Kamtjchatka and America. 



In manners this fpecies greatly refembles the PuiEn. Lives all Manners. 

 day at fea, but at no great diftance from the rocks : comes on fhore 

 at night : burrows a yard deep under ground, and makes there a 

 neft, with feathers and fea plants : is monogamous, and lodges there 

 the whole night with its mate. Lays one white egg, in the latter 

 end of May or beginning of June. Bites fiercely when taken. 

 Feeds on Crabs, Shrimps, and fhell-fifh, which it forces from the 

 rocks with its ftrong bill. 



The females of Kamtjchatka copy from this bird the fafhion of 

 hanging, from behind each ear, tufts made of flips of the white part 

 of the fkins of the Glutton, Thefe are reckoned the moft valuable 



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