THE BIRD BOOK 
12. Tufted Puffin. Lunda cirrhata. 
Puffin 
Range. — Pacific Coast from Alaska southward 
to southern California, breeding locally through- 
out their range. 
Tufted Puffins are the largest of the Puffins. 
In the breeding plumage, they are a sooty brown- 
ish or black color; the cheeks are white, and a 
long tuft of straw colored feathers extends back 
from each eye; the bill is bright red and green- 
ish yellow. They breed commonly on the Faral- 
lones, where two or three broods are raised by a 
bird in a single season, but much more abund- 
antly on the islands in the north. Their single 
eggs are laid in burrows in the ground or else in 
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White 
natural crevices formed by the rocks. The eggs are pure white or pale buff 
and are without gloss. They very often have barely perceptible shell markings 
of dull purplish color. The eggs are laid about the middle of June. Size 2.80 
x 1.90. Data. — Farallone Is., May 27, 1887. Single egg laid in crevice of rocks. 
Collector, W. O. Emerson. 
13. Puffin. Fratercula arctica arctica. 
Range— North Atlantic Coast, breeding from the Bay of Fundy northward. 
Winters from breeding range along the New England Coast. 
The common Puffin has the cheeks, chin and underparts white; upper parts 
and a band across the throat, blackish. Bill deep and thin, and colored with 
red, orange and yellow. They breed in large numbers on Bird Rock in the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence. The nest is either among the natural crevices of the 
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