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The Horn-eyed Puffin has long been known to inhabit the Kurile 

 Islands (Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 365) , but it was for a long 

 time confused with its Atlantic representative. It has not been 

 recorded from Japan, but probably breeds on the Kurile Islands 

 (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 89), as I have 



Head of Fratercula corniculata. f natural size. 



an example obtained in June by Mr. Snow on Shiashkotan, one of the 

 more northerly islands of the group (Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 174). It 

 breeds in great numbers on the islands of the southern shores of the 

 Sea of Okhotsk (MiddendorflP, Sibirische Reise, ii. p. 240) ; whence 

 its range extends eastwards to the Commander Islands, the Aleutian 

 Islands, and the islands on the southern coast of Alaska as far south 

 as Sitka ; and northwards through Bering Straits to Cape Lisburne. 



276. FRATERCULA CIRRHATA. 



(TUFTED PUFFIN.) 



Alca cirrhata, Pallas, Spicilegia Zoologica, pt. v. p. 7 (1780). 



The Tufted Puffin may be distinguished from its Japanese allies by 

 its combination of the two characters — underparts entirely brown, and 

 wing from carpal joint between 7 and 8 inches long. 



