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on the sides of the head behind the eye ; face white ; upper' parts 
brownish-blackj glossed with blue, lower sooty-brown, tinged with 
grey on the abdomen ; part of the sides and under wing-coverts grey- 
ish-brown. 
Male, 15, 22|. 
Extremely rare and accidental on the coast of the United States in 
winter. Common in the Arctic Seas, and on the north-west coast of 
America. 
Alca cirrhata, Lath. Ind. Orn. v. ii. p. 791. 
Mormon cirrliatus, Bonap. Syn. p. 429. 
Tufted Mormon or Puffin, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 539. 
Tufted Puffin, Mormon cirrhatus, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 364. 
471. 2. Mormon glacialis, Leach. Large-billed Puffin. 
Plate CCXCIII. Male. 
Bill with three curved grooves on each of the mandibles toward 
the end, a compressed addition to the ridge about three-quarters of an 
inch long, its colour, and that of the feet, orange-yellow ; on the upper 
eyelid an oblong, tapering, horny body, directed upwards and back- 
wards, on the lower an adherent linear body of the same nature ; sides 
of the head, and the lower parts, white ; upper part of head light 
brownish-grey, tinged with lilac ; a broad collar extending to the 
lower mandible ; of a dark greyish-brown tint below, gradually pass- 
ing* into the colour of the upper parts, which is brownish-black, gloss- 
ed with blue ; primary quills and their coverts blackish-brown ; part 
of the sides and under wing-coverts greyish-brown. 
Male, 13, 24|. 
Very rare, and in winter only, off the Bay of Fundy. 
Mormon glacialis, Bonap. Syn. p. 430. 
Large-billed Puffin, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 541. 
Large-billed Puffin, Mormon glacialis, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 599. 
472. 3. Mormon Arcticus, Linn. Common or Arctic Puffin. 
Plate CCXIII. Male and Female. 
Bill with three curved grooves on both mandibles toward the end, a 
very slight addition to the ridge at the base only a quarter of an inch 
long ; the basal rim and first ridge of both mandibles dull yellow, the 
intervening space greyish-blue, the rest bright red; on the upper 
eye-lid a flattened triangular nearly erect horny body, and along the 
lower an adherent elongated body of the same nature ; feet vermilion ; 
throat and sides of the head greyish-white ; upper parts of the head 
greyish-black, tinged with blue ; the middle of the neck all round, 
and all the upper parts deep black, glossed with blue, the quills tinged 
with brown ; under parts white, except the upper part of the sides, 
which are dusky, and the lower wing-coverts, which are brownish- 
grey. 
