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  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  The 
  Puffin, 
  Sea 
  parrot 
  or 
  Tinker 
  is 
  recorded 
  by 
  Giraud, 
  DeKay, 
  Law- 
  

   rence 
  and 
  Chapman 
  as 
  a 
  rare 
  winter 
  visitant 
  to 
  the 
  shores 
  of 
  Long 
  Island. 
  

   Mr 
  L. 
  S. 
  Foster 
  reported 
  a 
  specimen 
  from 
  Center 
  Moriches, 
  Suffolk 
  county, 
  

   Deceml3er 
  15, 
  1882; 
  and 
  Dr 
  Braislin, 
  from 
  Montauk, 
  March 
  30, 
  1902 
  [see 
  

   Auk 
  20: 
  50]. 
  The 
  southernmost 
  breeding 
  station 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  on 
  the 
  

   coast 
  of 
  Maine, 
  and 
  it 
  rarely 
  migrates 
  further 
  south 
  than 
  the 
  shores 
  of 
  

   Caj^e 
  Cod. 
  

  

  Cepphus 
  grylle 
  (Linnaeus) 
  

   Black 
  Guillemot 
  

  

  Plate 
  3 
  

  

  Ale 
  a 
  grylle 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  Ed. 
  10. 
  1758. 
  1:130 
  

   Uria 
  grylle 
  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  278, 
  fig. 
  303 
  

   Cepphus 
  grylle 
  A. 
  0. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  27 
  

  

  cepph'us, 
  Gr. 
  Ke'7r<^os, 
  some 
  sea 
  bird; 
  gryl'le, 
  Swedish 
  for 
  this 
  bird 
  

  

  Description. 
  In 
  winter: 
  Upper 
  parts 
  blackish, 
  all 
  the 
  feathers 
  tipped 
  

   with 
  white 
  giving 
  a 
  marbled 
  appearance; 
  lesser 
  wing 
  coverts, 
  terminal 
  half 
  

   of 
  greater 
  coverts 
  and 
  lining 
  of 
  the 
  wing 
  white, 
  the 
  white 
  coverts 
  forming 
  

   a 
  large 
  white 
  patch; 
  under 
  parts 
  white. 
  Young: 
  Similar, 
  but 
  the 
  under 
  

   parts 
  mottled 
  with 
  black. 
  Breeding 
  plumage: 
  Sooty 
  black 
  with 
  greenish 
  

   reflections 
  above; 
  wings 
  as 
  in 
  winter. 
  Length 
  13 
  inches; 
  wing 
  6.25; 
  bill 
  

   1.2 
  ; 
  tarsus 
  1.25. 
  

  

  The 
  Black 
  guillemot, 
  sometimes 
  called 
  Sea 
  pigeon 
  is 
  an 
  uncommon 
  

   winter 
  visitant 
  south 
  of 
  Cape 
  Cod. 
  It 
  is 
  mentioned 
  without 
  definite 
  records 
  

   bv 
  Giraud 
  and 
  DeKay, 
  and 
  is 
  certainly 
  very 
  rare 
  in 
  this 
  State. 
  There 
  is 
  

   one 
  specimen 
  from 
  the 
  Lawrence 
  Collection, 
  labeled 
  "Long 
  Island" 
  in 
  Mr 
  

   Butcher's 
  collection, 
  number 
  1959. 
  The 
  late 
  David 
  Bruce 
  of 
  Brockport, 
  

   N. 
  Y., 
  WTites 
  that 
  he 
  has 
  several 
  times 
  picked 
  up 
  the 
  wings 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  

   in 
  the 
  winter 
  drift 
  on 
  the 
  shore 
  of 
  Lake 
  Ontario, 
  and 
  that 
  a 
  specimen 
  in 
  

   the 
  mottled 
  plumage 
  was 
  taken 
  on 
  Lake 
  Ontario 
  in 
  Februar}', 
  1888, 
  b}- 
  

   Mr 
  Skillen 
  of 
  Troutberg. 
  

  

  Cepphus 
  mandti 
  (Lichtenstein) 
  

  

  Mandt 
  Guillemot 
  

  

  Distinctive 
  marks. 
  Like 
  the 
  Black 
  guillemot, 
  but 
  the 
  greater 
  wing 
  coverts 
  are 
  white 
  to 
  their 
  base, 
  

   whereas 
  C. 
  grylle 
  has 
  at 
  least 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  greater 
  coverts 
  black, 
  sometimes 
  showing 
  

   as 
  a 
  black 
  line 
  between 
  the 
  white 
  of 
  the 
  greater 
  and 
  lesser 
  coverts. 
  

  

  