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NORTHERN PUFFIN. 



(Fratercula glacialis.) 



F R. corpore nigro, gems schistaceG-albidis, pectore ahdomineque 



alhisy rostro pallido basi nigro. 

 Puffin with a black body, the cheeks slaty-white, breast and 



abdomen white, the beak pale, with its base black. 

 Fratercula glacialis. Leach in Brit. Mus. Collection. 



This species greatly resembles the preceding, but • 

 the colours are more intense, and the form of the 

 beak is different : it was discovered during Captain 

 Ross's Expedition to the northern regions; and spe- 

 cimens are now preserved in the collection at the 

 British Museum. 



TUFTED PUFFIN. 

 (Fratercula cirrhata.) 



Fe. corpore nigricante, fronte, capitis lateribus, guldque albis, 

 superciliis albisj postice Jlavis elongatis cirrhatis. 



Puffin with a dusky body, the forehead, sides of the head, and 

 throat white, the eyebrows white, with an elongate crest be- 

 hind yellow. 



Alca cirrhata. Pall. Spic. 5. pi. 1. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 553. 



Lath. Ind. Orn: 2. 791. 

 Le Macareux de Kamtschatka. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 368. 



Buff. PL Enl. 761. 

 Tufted Auk. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 432. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5.313. 



pi. 95./. 1. (head.) Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 57. pL 170./. L 



