599 



FKATEBCULA AECTICA. 



(PUFFIN.) 



Fratercula, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 81 (1760). 



Alca arctica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 211 (1766). 



Le Macareux, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ix. p. 358, pi. xxvi. (1783). 



Labrador Auk, Lath. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 318 (1785). » 



Alca labradorica, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 550 (1788). 



Alca labradora, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 793. no. 4 (1790). 



Alca canagularis, Meyer, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. ii. p. 442 (1810). 



Mormon, Illiger (Alca arctica, Linn.), Prodromus, p. 283 (1811). 



Lunda arctica (L.), Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. ii. p. 365 (1811). 



Mormon fratercula, Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 614 (1815). 



Fratercula arctica (L.), Leach, Syst. Cat. M. & B. Brit. Mus. p. 42 (1816). 



" Mormon glacialis, Leach," J. F. Naumann, Isis, 1821, p. 782, pi. 7. fig. 2. 



Mormon arctica (L.), J. F. Naumann, Isis, 1821, p. 783, pi. 7. figs. 5, 6, 7. 



Fratercula glacialis (Leach), Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. i. p. 40, pi. 4. fig. 2 (1825). 



Mormon polaris, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 999 (1831). 



Mormon graham, C. L. Brehm, ut supra (1831). 



Fratercula (Ceratoblepharum) arctica (L.), Brandt, Bull. Ac. St.-Petersb. ii. p. 348 (1837). 



Mormon arcticus (L.), Macgill. Man. Brit. Orn. ii. p. 218 (1842). 



Fratercula corniculata, Degl. & Gerbe, Orn. Eur. ii. p. 609 (1867, nee Naum.). 



Puffin, Coulterneb, English ; Fachach, Seumas-ruadh, Gaelic ; Macareux, French ; Papagaio 

 do mar, Portuguese ; Polcinella di mare, Italian ; arktischer Lund, nordischer Larven- 

 taucher, German ; Seepapagei, Dutch ; So-Papagdie, Danish ; Lundi, Fseroese ; Killingak, 

 Greenlandic ; Lun'Si, Icelandic ; Lundefugl, Norwegian ; Lunnefogel, Swedish. 



Figurce notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 275 ; Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 72 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 53, 

 Suppl. taf. 35 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 335 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 52. fig. 1; 

 Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 403 ; id. B. of G. Brit. v. pi. 51 ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 260 ; 

 Audub. B. of Am. oct. ed. pi. 464; Newton, Ibis, 1865, pi. 6. 



Ad. pileo nigro vix fusco tincto : capitis lateribus, mento et gula, cinereis : collo postico, torque collari et 

 corpore supra nigris, hoc purpureo nitente : corpore subtus albo : rostro livido-cseruleo, aurantiaco 

 fasciato, et ad basiu viridi colorato : iride fusco-cinerea, caruncula, supra et sub oculis plumbeo-ceerulea : 

 pedibus auraiitiacis. 



Juv. rostro minore et sordidiore, capitis lateribus saturatioribus, et regione anteoculari fuliginoso-nigra : 

 pedibus sordide aurautiaco-flavidis. 



