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they are very active in the water, but exceedingly 

 clumsy and stupid on shore. Their flesh is but little 

 valued, but their eggs are much prized : they will 

 sometimes fly on board vessels of an evening, and are 

 then very easily captured. Temminck supposes this 

 to be the young of the preceding species. 



CRESTED STARIKI. 



(Phaleris cristatella.) 



Ph. corpore nigricante, dorso maculis Jerrughieis , crista frontali 



antrorsum inclinanie, rostro rubro. 

 StariM with the body dusky, the back with rusty spots, a frontal 



crest ineliuiiig forwards, and a red beak. 

 Alca cristatella. Pall. Spic. 5. 18. pi. 3. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



552. Lath. Lid. Om. 2. 794. 

 Black Stariki. Hist. Kamtschatha, 156. 

 Crested Auk. Penn. Arct. -Zool. 2. 434. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5- 



323. pi. 95./. 4. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 67. 



" Length twelve inches : the beak shaped some- 

 what like that of the Common Puffin, but the upper 

 mandible more hooked at the tip, and the feathers of 

 the chin produced half way on the under one : at the 

 angle of the mouth a callous flap : the colour of that 

 and the beak crimson ; tip of the last yellow : the 

 head is rather small ; and on the forehead is an up- 

 right crest composed of long feathers, which curve 

 forwards : eyes small ; under them a line of white, 

 and behind them a streak composed of four or five 



