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My suggestions on the subject may be erroneous; but they will, I hope, lead future navigators, when 
they have the opportunity, to pay that attention to the species, which alone can lead to any decisive 
conclusions. 
Fratercula CIRRHATA. 
Alca cirrbata. Pall., Spic. fasc. 5. p. 7. t. 1. 
Tufted Auk. Penn., Arcl. Zool. vol.2. p. 513. sp. 432. 
Macareux de Kamtschatka. Buff., PI. Enl. 761. 
This species was found in great abundance at Avatscha Bay, July, 1826, and more sparingly 
afterwards at Chamisso Island. One specimen was brought home with a carinated bill, apparently 
a young bird. 
Fratercula glacialis. 
Mormon glacialis. Leacli ? — Pr. of Musignano, Syn. p. 429. sp. 379. 
I refer this bird to Dr. Leach’s species with doubt, as I am not aware of the work in which he 
published the characters of the species. All our birds, of which there are numerous specimens, agree 
with the European Puffin in their general characters, but uniformly vary from it in size. The species 
was seen in abundance, according to Mr. Collie, “ on the rocky ledges of Chamisso Island, at Cape 
Mulgrave and Cape Lisburne, the young leaving the rocks the first days of September.” 
Phaleris cristatella. Temm. 
Alca cristatella. Pall., Spic. fasc. 5. p. 18. #.3. 
Crested Auk. Penn., Arct. Zool. vol. 2. p. 515. sp. 434. 
Starique cristatelle. Temm., PI. Col. 200. 
This species was found at St. Lawrence Island in Avatscha Bay, in July, 1826, whence dead 
specimens were brought off in great numbers by the natives. Mr. Collie has made the following 
remarks on some specimens which he examined : 
“ The point of the bill was livid ; the rest of it, and the broad reflected margin of the lower 
mandible, as well as the semicordate fleshy portion at the angle of the mouth, of an ochry-red colour, 
differing in intensity in different individuals. Behind each eye were a few white setaceous feathers. 
The outer toe has five joints ; the others diminishing by one joint as they are placed internally. The 
female is the same as the male; or if any difference can be traced, it is in the more slaty colour 
underneath, and the longer crest of the former. 
“ The testes were of different sizes in the different specimens. In one the left was oval and seven 
lines in length, the right smaller and rounded. The vasa deferentia were very distinct, arising from 
the posterior and lower part of the testes, and becoming very much convoluted towards the vent. In 
all the others which I examined (three or four), the testes were much smaller. The ova were all small. 
The stomach was simply muscular and thin ; with very thin internal membrane. The cceca were short. 
The sternum, or rather the cartilaginous termination, extended to the vent; and the angle of the carti- 
lages of the ribs to the ilium.” 
Cerorhinca occidentalism Pr. of Musignano, Syn. p. 428. sp. 377. 
I refer to this species of the Prince of Musignano with some doubt. The birds under conside- 
ration, of which many specimens were brought home by the expedition, possess the horny process on 
the ridge of the upper mandible, that forms the distinguishing characteristic of the genus Cerorhinta, 
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