4,6 



DUSKY STARIKI, 



(Phalcris tetracula.) 



Ph. corpore nigra subtus cinerasccnte, nucha maculis rectrici- 



busque latercdibus apice Jerrugineis, Jrante subcristatd, rostra 



luteo-Jusco, carina albida. 

 Stariki with the body black, beneath ash-coloured, the nape with 



spots, and the lateral tail-feathers at the tip ferruginous, the 



forehead slightly crested, the beak of a yellowish-brown, the 



tip whitish. 

 Alca tetracula. Pall. Spic. 5. 25. pi. 4. Gmel. Sj/sf. Naf. 1. 



552. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 794. 

 Dusky Auk. Perm. Arct. Zool. 2. 435. Lath. Gen. Sipi. 5. 324. 



pi. 95./. 3. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 68. 



Size of the preceding : length eleven inches : the 

 beak smaller in proportion, but the upper mandible 

 bent at the point ; the colour yellow-brown ; the 

 ridge white : the irides are white, surrounded by a 

 circle of black : the forehead is covered with downy 

 feathers, which are pretty full, and reflexed half one 

 way, half the other : behind the eyes a stripe of 

 white : the head and neck are black, marked with a 

 few obscure ferruginous spots on the nape : the upper 

 parts of the body black ; beneath cinereous, growing 

 whitish near the vent : the wings reach to the base 

 of the tail, which is composed of fourteen feathers, 

 all of which, except the two middle ones, are ferric 

 ginous at the ends : legs livid : webs black. 



Found in the seas between Japan and Kamtschatka : 

 their nests are formed in fissures among the rocks : 



