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and sometimes abounds on the French coast in 

 winter. 



Tufted Auk: Lath. Syn. v. t. 95. f. 1. head. A. 

 Cirrhata. Pal, Spic. v. pi. 1. Vieill. Gal. 299. 



Beak compressed, with three grooves ; eyebrows, white; 

 behind, with yellow elongated tufts. Kamtschatka. 



Snowy Auk. Mormon Glacialis. Leach. Temm. 



Black; beneath, white; a broad black collar; bill, 

 very high, moderately compressed, with two grooves 

 before the nostrils. Arctic parts of Europe and 

 America. 



M. Temminck distinguishes under the name of 

 Staryques (Phaleris) the species whose bill is less 

 elevated. 



Alca Cristatella, Vieill. Gal. 297^ or 

 Staryque CristateUe, Tern. Col. 200. Pal. Spic. 

 Zool. V. pi. 1, of which A. Pygmcea is the young. 



Blackish ; beneath, lighter, tinged with bluish ; a 

 frontal tuft of six or eight feathers curling over the 

 bill ; sides of the head, with long slender white 

 feathers ; ridge of bill, hardly compressed : young, 

 black ; beneath, white ; no tuft. North Coast of 

 Asia. 



Perroquet AuJc, Lath. Syn. v. t. 95, f. 2, 3, head. A. 

 Psittacula, Pall. Spic. Zool. v. pi. 2, of which A. 

 Tetracula, ib. pi. 4, is the young. 



Black ; belly, white ; above, behind the eye, and a 

 spot above, white ; ridge of bill, compressed. Adult, 



