Auks, Murres and PuflBns 



I 2. Tufted Puffin (Lunda cirrkata). L. 15. ^ds., 

 summer. Cheeks white; a pair of long straw color 

 plumes from behind eyes; rest of plumage sooty. 

 homier. Cheeks sooty, plumes usually absent. Yng. 

 S.milar to winter adult, but breast and belly whitish. 



Range. — Northern Pacific; resident locally from Santa Barbara 

 isbi.Js north 10 Alaska. Accidental In Maine, 



I 3. PufRn [Frateroila arctica). L. 13; W. 6; B. 1.8. 



j4ds. Above, and foreneck blackish; cheeks and under 

 parts white; bill in summer touched with bright red. 

 Notes. A hoarse croak. 



Range.— North Atlantic; breeds from Bay of Fundy north to Green- 

 land; winters south to Long Island. 



13a. Large-billed PufRn (F. a. glacialis). W. 7; 

 B, 2, I. Similar to No. 13, but larger. 



Range.— Arctic Ocean from Spltzenbergren to northern Greenland. 



14. Horned Puffin (Fra^CT-ca/fl corniculata). Simi- 

 lar to No. 13, but in summer with the throat blackish. 

 Notes. "A hoarse snuffling, rattling note" (Nelson.) 



Range, "Northern Pacific from Kuril Islands to British Colum- 

 bia." (A. O. U.) 



15. Rhinoceros Auklet (CCT-orA(«c«mo«oc^fafa). L. 

 15.5. j4ds., summer. A horn oh base of bill; two pairs 

 of white tufts; above blackish; throat and breast gray- 

 ish; belly white. Winter. Similar,but no horn. Yng. 

 Similar to winter ad. but no tufts. 



Range, — "North Pacific: breeding south (formerly) to the Far- 

 allones; In winter south to Lower California and Japan." [A. O. U.) 



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