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This little diver should he noted more often than it has been along 
our coast, especially on the outer shore of Vancouver Island where breeding 
colonies will probably be found. 
17. Paroquet Auklet. la petite alque perroquet. Cyclorrhynchus psittacula. 
L, 9-75. Adults: head, neck, and back dull brownish; all below white. Bill small, bright 
red, and with cutting edges peculiarly upturned. A narrow 
spray of fine white plumes extending backward from under 
the eye (Figure 364). Juvenile and winter plumage: with 
white invading the dark foreneek and without facial plumes. 
Distinctions. Small size, little red bill, and facial plumes. 
Field Marks. Small size, dark head, neck, and back, 
with white underparts, and little red bill should be dis- 
tinctive in suitable circumstances. 
Nesting. Under stones or in clefts in the rocks. 
Distribution. Northern Pacific and Bering Sea coasts 
of Alaska. This bird has been noted at Forrester Island, 
across Dixon Entrance from Queen Charlotte Islands, and also in the Strait, ot Juan do 
Uuca and must eventually be taken along the intervening coast, though up to the present 
it has not been so recorded. 
15. Rhinoceros Auklet. la petite alque a bec cornu. Cerorhinca monocerala. 
Jj 14-50. One of the larger members of the subfamily. Dark, smoky brown, slightly 
lightening on foreneck, breast, and flanks and pure or dirty white below. In breeding 
plumage, there are remarkable sparse sprays or tufts of white, plume-like feathers extending 
from above the eye and the angle of the mouth back and downward (r igure 36o). ine 
name “Rhinoceros” is obtained from the single upstanding process at the base of the 
culmen, nearly half an inch high and half as wide. In winter, the plumes and horn are 
usually shed, the horn being indicated then and in juveniles only by a small, soft knob 
f Figure 366). 
Figure 364 
Paroquet Auklet; 
scale, J. 
b, Juvenile. 
Figure 365 
Rhinoceros Auklet; scale, i. 
Distinctions. Size, general smoky-brown coloration with light, underbody, and the 
rhinoceros horn or knob at base of upper mandible. 
Field Marks. Probably in life to be confused only with the puffins or the murres 
When seen, the horn or face tufts should be determinative. Has not the lug, highly coloured 
bill of the puffins. Larger than the auklets and murrelets, smaller than the murres and 
more stubby in build, especially about the head. Of different colour from the guillemots. 
No I »right colour anywhere. 
Nesting. In burrows in the ground, usually in steeply sloping banks facing the sea. 
Distribution. Coast and islands of the north Pacific. Breeding from Sitka south to 
Washington. 
We have few actual breeding records for the species in British ( olum- 
bia. There are colonies, however, about the south end of \ ancouver Island 
and elsewhere in the lonelier spots along the coast between \ ancouvei 
Island and the Alaska boundary. 
