CRESTED STAUIKf. 



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they are very active in the water, but exceedingly 

 clumsy and stupid on shore. Their flesh is but little 

 valued, but their eggs are much prized : they will 

 sometimes fly on board vessels of an evening, and are 

 then very easily captured. Temminck supposes this 

 to be the young of the preceding species. 



CREl^TED STARIKI. 



(Phaleris cristatella.) 



Ph. corpore tiigricante, dorso maculis ferrugineis, crista frontalt 



antrorsum inclinantej rostro rubro. 

 Stariki with the body dusky, the back with rusty spots, a frontal 



crest iiielining forwards, and a red beak. 

 AIca cristatella. FalL Spic. 5. 18. pi. 3. Gmel. Si/st. Nat, L 



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

 Black Stariki. Hist> Kamtschatha, 156. 



Crested Auk. Penn, Arct. Zool. 2. 434. Lath. Gen. Sijn. 5. 

 323. pi. 95./. 4. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 67. 



** Length twelve inches : the beak shaped some- 

 what like that of the Common Puffin, but the upper 

 mandible more hooked at the tip, and the feathers of 

 the chin produced half way on the under one : at the 

 angle of the mouth a callous flap : the colour of that 

 and the beak crimson ; tip of the last yellow : the 

 head is rather small ; and on the forehead is an up- 

 right crest composed of long feathers, which curve 

 forwards : eyes small ; under them a line of white, 

 and behind them a streak composed of four or five 



