58 AUK. 



It was first met with a little to the south of Cape Hermogenes, 

 and after that daily, sometimes in large flocks.* Pallas remarkst 

 that the Kamtschatkan girls imitate the tufts of these birds, by 

 placing a similar strip of the white skin of the Glutton J behind each 

 ear, hanging down behind, by way of ornament, and is a well 

 received present from a lover to his mistress. The bills of these, as 

 well as of the Common Puffin, were formerly held by the natives as 

 charms, and worn by the priests as amulets ; they are yet seen round 

 their head dresses, but supposed at this time to be only by way of 

 ornament : the skins are made use of for clothing, and sewed 

 together for that purpose. The bird is called in Kamtschatka, 

 Muechagatka;§ and in Ochotka, Igilma,|| In manners it coincides 

 with the last Species, and like it burrows under ground, lining the 

 nest with feathers, and sea plants; lays a single egg, the end of May, 

 or beginning of June, which is eaten, but the flesh of the bird is 

 hard and insipid. It feeds on crabs, shrimps, and shell fish, which 

 last it forces from the rocks with the bill.^j 



3 —PUFFIN AUK. 



Alca arctica, Ind. Orn. ii. 792. Lin. i. 211. Fn. suee. No. 141. Gm. Lin.'u 549. 



Brun. No. 103. Muller, No. 140. Frisch, t. 192. Boroiosk. Hi. 31. Sibb. Scot. 



ii. 20. pi. 16. f. 1. Olear. Mus. t. 15. f. 5. Ball. Spic. v. p. 1. Fn. Groenl. 53. 

 Fratercula, Bris. vi. 81. t. 6. f. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 380. Germ. t. 551. 

 Mormon Fratercula, Macareux Moine, Tern. Man. 614. Id. Ed. 2d. 934. 

 Alca deleta, Brun. No. 104. — a bird of the first year. 

 Anas arctica, Rail, 120. A. 5. Will. 244. t. 65. 

 Plautus arcticus, Klein, An. 146. 3. 

 Le Macareux, Buf. ix. 358. pi. 26. Fl. enl. 275. 

 Papagaay Duiker, Sepp, Vog. 4. t. p. 359. 

 Lunda, Seligm. Mus. ii. s. 11. t. 11. f. 21. 

 Ipatka, Hist. Kamtsch. p. 153. 



* Cook's last Vot/.u. 411. f Spicil. Zoolog. % Mustek Gulo. — Lin. 



§ Mitchagatka — Alca monochroa sulcis tribus, circo duplici utrinque dependente — Alca 

 Arctica Cirrhata. — Phil. Trans. Ii. p. 482. Found in America, opposite Kamtschatka, as 

 also the Urili, and Kaiover, or Kaiour. || Hist. Kamts. p. 183. IT Arct. Zool. 



