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Figures : Daubenton, Planches Enluminees, no. 761 ; Bonaparte, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1851, pi. 44 ; Stejneger, Orn. Expl. Comm. Isl. and 

 Kamtschatka, pi. 1 ; Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water-Birds N. 

 Amer. ii. p. 532 (coloured woodcut of head) . 



Head of Fratercula cirrhata. f natural size. 



The Tufted Puffin has long been known to inhabit the Kurile 

 Islands (Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 364), where it breeds 

 (Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 210). Its claim to be regarded as 

 a Japanese bird rests upon examples from Nemoro in north-east 

 Yezzo (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 88). 



I have an example collected by Dr. Schrenck in Kamtschatka, and 

 there are four examples in the Pryer collection obtained by Mr. Snow 

 on the Kurile Islands in July. 



It also breeds on many of the islands in Bering Sea, and on both 

 shores of the North Pacific Ocean, where its range extends a little 

 further north than Bering Straits, and as far south as the Farallon 

 Islands, outside the harbour of San Francisco. 



An egg collected by Mr. Snow on the Kurile Islands measures 

 2'8 by 2-0 inches ; it resembles eggs of the Common Puffin, but the 

 colour is browner, and it is streaked rather than spotted. 



