PHALERIS. STARIKI. 



Genetic Character. 



Rostrum mediocre, conico- 

 convexum, utrinque com- 

 pressum, fere quadrangu- 

 lare, ad apicem emargi- 

 natum : mandibula supe- 

 riore apice incurvo; infe- 

 riore brevior, versus basin 

 tumida, 



Nares oblongas ad medium 

 rostri sitae. 



Al(B mediocres. 

 Pedes breves, tridactyli ; un- 

 £^ues curvati. 



Beak medial, conic-convex, 

 compressed on each side, 

 nearly quadrangular, emar- 

 ginated towards the tip; 

 the upper mandible bent 

 down at the tip ; the lower 

 shorter, and swollen to- 

 wards the base. 



Nostrils oblong, placed to- 

 wards the middle of the 

 beak. 



Wings medial. 



Legs short, three-toed ; claws 

 curved. 



PHALERIS. Temminck. 



ALCA. Pallas, Gmel., Lath., Vieil. 



Temminck has judiciously separated this genus 

 from the Puffins, in the second edition of his Ma- 

 nuel : he appears, hovy^ever, to have been anticipated 

 by Vieillot, in his Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornitho- 

 logie E16nentaire, in which work M. Vieillot has 

 applied the name Alca to the /L cristatella of Gmelin, 

 and Larva to the Fratercula arctka and Alca im- 



