AUK. 7 



admit of his coming, as a stranger, within gun shot, though in their 

 company; but afterwards suffering the boatmen, by themselves, to 

 approach so near, as to knock it down with an oar. This specim en 

 was in good preservation in Mr. Bullock's Museum. The sexes of 

 this species are called King and Queen of Auks; and by some 

 Gair-Fowls. 



2.— TUFTED AUK.— Pl. clxx. f. 1. 



Alca cirrhata, Ind. Om. ii. 791. Gtn. Lin. i. 553. Pall. Spic. v. p. 7. t. 1. & 5. 



Boroivsk. iii. t. 38. 

 Le Macareux de Kamtschatka, Buf. ix. 368. Pl. enl. 761. 

 Igilma, Hist. Kamtsch. 183. 

 Tufted Auk, Gen. Syn. v. 313. pl. 95. f. L— the head. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 432. 



Cook's Last Voy. ii. 411. 



THIS exceeds the Common Puffin in size, and is nineteen 

 inches in length. The bill nearly two inches long, crossed with 

 three furrows ; similar in colour and shape to that of the Common 

 Puffin, and like that, compressed and furrowed on the sides ; irides 

 yellowish brown ; the sides of the head and chin are white ; over 

 each eye arises a tuft of feathers, four inches, or more, in length, 

 falling elegantly on each side of the neck, and in some specimens 

 reaching almost to the back ; these are white as far as they are 

 attached to the head, but beyond it fine buff-yellow ; the rest of the 

 plumage is black, beneath paler, and inclining to ash-colour, the 

 shafts of the quills white ; tail very short, and consists of sixteen 

 feathers; legs brownish orange ; claws black. 



The female is smaller,* but scarcely differs in plumage from the 

 male; the bill crossed with two furrows instead of three; and the tufts 

 smaller. — This species inhabits Kamtschatka, and the neighbouring 

 Islands. 



* Some of these, which we have seen, measured only fourteen inches and a half. 



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