AUK, 3*3 



Alca criftatella, Pall. Splc. v. p. 18. t. 3. and ;j 7- . 



01 1 c -i • V* 2/ /? CRESTED Aw 



Black Stanki, /£/?. Am/, p. 156. 



Crefted Auk, A<2. Zs»/. N° 434. Pl * XCV ' Fig - 4- 



CIZE of the Mijfel 1'hrujh : length twelve inches. The bill Description. 



fhaped fomewhat like that of the Puffin, but the upper man- 

 dible more hooked at the tip, and the feathers of the chin pro- 

 duced halfway on the" under one : at the angle of the mouth a 

 callous flap j the colour of that and the bill crimfon ; tip of the 

 lad yellow : the head is rather fmall ; and on the forehead is an 

 upright creft compofed of long feathers, which curve forwards as 

 in the Crejled Grakle * : eyes fmall, under them a line of white, and 

 behind them a ftreak compofed of four or five (lender white fea- 

 thers : the head and neck black : the back the fame, marked with 

 ferruginous brown fpots, changing into hoary on the rump : the 

 under parts of a dufky brown : the wings reach to the bafe of 

 the tail, which is black, and confifts of fourteen feathers j the 

 outmoft but one ferruginous at the tip ; the outer one marked 

 with indiftinct white dots : legs livid : webs dufky. 



This fpecies inhabits the iflands contiguous to Japan. One of PlacEc 



thefe, in the collection of Sir Jofeph Banks, came from Bird TJland, 

 between Afia and America. It fleeps of nights in burrows on 

 ihore, and fiffures of rocks, from whence it is often taken by 

 hand, with other birds of this ftupid race 



* See vol. i. p. 464. of this Work» 



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