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much less numerous than at those favored spots, farther 

 north, where it congregates by thousands to breed, 

 depositing its single egg in burrows underground, or 

 among rocks. The egg is white or whitish, whole- 

 colored or with obsolete spotting, measuring about 

 2.50x1.75- 



TUFTED PUFFIN. 



FrATERCULA CIRRATA Pall. 



Chars. Adult : with a long flowing yellow crest of filamentous 

 feathers on each side of the head. Eyelids not appendaged. 

 Under mandible smooth, upper sulcate, the grooves concave 

 forward ; basal part of culmen bossed ; bill and feet red ; claws 

 black; plumage wholly blackish, with white face. Length, 15.00- 

 16.00 ; wing, 7.50-8.00 ; tail, 2.00 ; tarsus, 1.33 ; bill, 2.33 ; nearly 

 2.00 deep at base. 



As is well known, the only authority for the occur- 

 rence of this species, which belongs to the North 

 Pacific, is Audubon's statement that one was taken at 

 the mouth of the Kennebec River, in the winter of 

 i83i-'32. Although the case is entirely exceptional, I 

 do not feel at liberty to take it for granted that it is 

 erroneous, and therefore do not follow Dr. Brewer in 

 expunging the species from the list. (See B. of Am., 

 8vo ed., vii, p. 234.) 



SEA DOVE, OR DOVEKIE. 



Alle nigricans Link. 



Chars. Glossy blue-black, below from the breast (in winter, and 

 in young, from the bill) white ; scapulars white-striped ; second- 



