AMEPdCAN ORNITHOLOOY. 



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PUFFINS. 



No. 12. Tufted Puffin {Limda cirrhata) . 



Coasts of North Pacific from the Santa Barbara 

 Islands, California, northwards. Adults in summer: 

 Above blackish; below sooty black. Face white and 

 ear tufts straw color. Eye white surrounded with a 

 red ring: bill reddish. In winter: Bill duller and 

 darker and smaller owing to moulting the scaly 

 shields; no eye ring, and the feet are more orange. 

 Young birds do not have the ear tufts and^the face is 

 blackish. Length about i6in. 



No. 13. Puffin (^Fmtercula arctica) . 



Breeds along the North Atlantic coast. South in' 

 winter to Long Island. Upper parts including a ring 

 around the neck, black. Face, cheeks, chin and 

 under parts, white. Eye white; feet and tip of bill 

 reddish orange; base of bill greenish yellow. No ear 

 tufts, but the upper eyeliJ has an upright horny 

 appendage and the lower eyelid a lateral one. Young 

 birds and adults in winter have smaller bills as in the 

 preceding species and the face is blackish while the 

 horns and eye ring are lacking. Length about i4in. 



13a Large-billed Puffin (Frattercula arctica 



glacialis) . 



A somewhat larger bird than the proceeding and 

 the bill is slightly relatively larger. It is found in the 

 Arctic Ocean. 



No. 14. Horned Puffin (Fratercula cornicul- 



ata). 



Found on the coasts and islands of the North- Pac- 

 ific. Simil.'ir to the two preceding species except that 

 the blatkish brown band across the breast extends 

 upwards meeting the base of the bill in a point. The 

 young and winter adults differ in the same respects 

 as do the others of this family. 



No. 15 Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorkinca 



monocerata) . 



Found along the whole Pacific coast of North Amer- 

 ica. Upper parts blackish, shading into gray on the 

 breast, chin, throat, and sides. Thin lengthened 

 tufts of feathers from above and below the eye. 

 Bill orange colored and ornamented with an upright 

 horn at the base. In winter the plumage is the 

 same with the h nn lacking. 



