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ALCINiE. PHALERIS. 
vex and declinate, the sides sloping, the edges sharp, with 
a deep sinus close to the narrow, declinate, blunt tip ; lower 
mandible with the angle rather long and wide, the dorsal 
line ascending and a little convex, the sides sloping out- 
wards, the edges sharp, the tip ascending, obliquely trun- 
cate. Nostrils linear-oblong, direct, near the margin, in 
the horny part of the bill. Head rather large, ovate ; neck 
short and thick ; body full and compact. Feet short, placed 
far behind ; tibia bare below ; tarsus very short, much com- 
pressed, anteriorly scutellate ; toes three, connected by 
emarginate webs ; middle and outer toes of the same length. 
Claws rather stout, moderately arched, compressed, rather 
obtuse. Plumage dense, blended, soft. Wings of moderate 
length, very narrow, pointed. Tail very short, rounded, of 
fourteen feathers. 
475. 1. Phaleris cristatella, Gmel. Curled-crested Pha- 
leris. 
Plate CCCCIL Fig. 4. Adult. 
Bill scarlet, with the tips yellow. Upper mandible with a somewhat 
triangular horny plate at the base detached from the other parts, and 
a deep oblique groove anterior to the nostrils ; lower mandible with a 
groove on each side ; a tuft of about twenty linear recurved feathers 
from the anterior part of the forehead ; general colour of upper parts 
brownish-black, of lower purplish-grey ; a short line of elongated li- 
near white feathers commencing under the eye, and proceeding along 
the side of the neck. 
Adult, 10, wing, 6|. 
North-west coast of America. 
Alca cristatella, Gmel. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 552. 
Curled-crested Phaleris, Phaleris cristatella, Aod. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 102. 
476. 2. Phaleris nodirostris, Bonap. Knobbed-billed Pha- 
leris. 
Plate CCCCII. Fig. 3. Adult. 
Bill deep red, much shorter than the head, stout, upper mandible 
with a roundish, compressed, decurvate, greyish-blue knob on its 
ridge, between the nostrils, which are covered by a projecting oper- 
culum ; tail of fourteen feathers ; feet dusky grey ; general colour of 
