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ALCIDiE, AUKS. GEN. 318-9. 



murres, puffins and gannets ; egg generally single, and deposited in a rift of 

 rooks; 3X2, white or whitish variously speckled and blotched with brown. 

 Comes S. in winter to the Middle States. N. Pacific, casually. Nutt., 

 ii, 547; AuD., vii, 247, pi. 466; Cass, in Bd., 901; Coues, I. c. 18, 

 and oj>. cit. 1861, 249 torda. 



318-9. Genus rEATEECULA Brisson. 



* Not crested ; eyelids appendaged ; under mandible snlcate, like the upper, 

 the grooves convex forward ; culmen simple, with one curve ; base of bill bossed ; 

 corners of mouth callous. Blackish, including the throat, the sides of the head 

 ashy-gray, with dusky maxillary patches (whole face dusky in the young) ; below, 

 white ; bill red, blue and j-ellow ; feet red. {Fratercula.) 



Horned Puffin. A slender sharp spur on upper eyelid. Black of throat 

 reaching the bill. 14J ; wing 7^ ; tail 2f ; bill 2 ; tarsus 1^. N. Pacific ; 

 not authentic on our Atlantic Coast. Mormon glacialis Aud., vii, 236, pi. 

 463; M. cornicidata Cass, in Bd., 902; Coues, I. c. 24. . corniculata. 



Common Puffin. Sea Parrot. A thick blunt excrescence on eyelids. 

 Black of throat not reaching the bill. 13J ; wing 6J ; tarsus 1 ; bill 2, depth 

 at base IJ. N. Atlantic, breeding in vast numbers, in burrows ; egg 2JXlf , 



ft- 



Fig. 216. Common Puffin. 



broadly ovoid, rough-granular, white or whitish, more rarely brownish, 

 obsoletely or not at all variegated. S. in winter to the Middle States (to 

 Georgia, Audubon). Nutt., ii, 542; Aud., vii, 238, pL 464; Cass, in 

 Bd., 903; Coues, I. c. 21, and op. cit. 1861, 251 aecticus. 



Var. GLACIALIS, from the Arctic Coasts, is rather larger, especially the bill, 

 which is about 2-'- long, l^-lf deep at base. Cass, in Bd., 903 ; Coues, I. c. 23. 



** Adult with a long flowing crest of filamentous feathers on each side of the 

 head ; eyelids simple ; under mandible smooth, upper sulcate, the grooves concave 

 forward ; culmen with two curves, the basal part bossed. (Limcla.) 



I \C{ Tuf led Puffin. Blackish, duller and more fuliginous below ; face white ; 



^ crests straw-yellow; bill red and livid; feet red. Young not crested, fixce 

 not white, and at an early age the undeveloped bill has a different shape, 

 represented in fig. 217 (this is Sagmatorhina lathami Bp., Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1851, 202, pi. 44; Coues, I. c. 31; ^S*. labradora Cass, in Bd., 904; Ell., 



