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DUSKY STARIKI. 



(Phaleris tetracula.) 



Ph. corpore nigro suhtus cinerascente, nucha maculis rectrici- 

 husque lateralibus apice Jerrugineis, fronte snhcrislatd, rostro 

 luteO'fuscOi carina alhida. 



Stariki with the body black, beneath ash -coloured, the nape with 

 spots, and the lateral tail-feathers at the tip ferruginous, the 

 forehead slightly crested, the beak of a yellowish -brown, the 

 tip whitish. 



Alca tetracula. Pall. Spic. 5. 25. p/. 4. Gmel. Sijst. Nat, J. 



552. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 794. 

 Dusky Auk. Pe7i7i, Arct. Zool 2. 435. Lath. Gen. Sijn. 5. 324. 



pi. 95./. 3. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 68. 



Size of the preceding : length eleven inches : the 

 beak smaller in proportion^ but the upper mandible 

 bent at the point ; the colour yellow-brown ; the 

 ridge white : the irides are white, surrounded by a 

 circle of black : the forehead is covered with downy 

 feathers, which are pretty full, and reflexed half one 

 way, half the other : behind the eyes a stripe of 

 white : the head and neck are black, marked with a 

 few obscure ferruginous spots on the nape : the upper 

 parts of the body black ; beneath cinereous, growing 

 whitish near the vent : the wings reach to the base 

 of the tail, which is composed of fourteen feathers, 

 all of which, except the two middle ones, are ferru- 

 ginous at the ends : legs livid : webs black. 



Found in the seas between Japan and Kamtschatka : 

 their nests are formed in fissures among the rocks : 



