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AUKS, MURRES, AND PUFFINS 
to a Japanese bird-kite. In flight the Puffin’s wings move more rapidly 
than those of the Murre and Razorbill, and unlike those birds it stands 
only on its toes, and can run about easily and rapidly. 
While Murres and Razorbills usually resort to rocky islets whose 
ledges and crannies afford nesting-sites, Puffins may use low-lying, flat 
islands in the turf of which they excavate their burrows. It was a 
surprising experience, in crossing an apparently deserted bit of ground 
on the Fame Islands, to have at nearly every step dozens of Puffins 
burst from the earth at my feet. The only note I have heard from a 
Puffin is a hoarse grunt or groan. Puffins can inflict serious wounds 
with their powerful bill, which they use ferociously. 
1883. Brewster, W., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XXII, 407 (habits). 
13a. F. a. naumanni {Norton). Large-billed Puffin. Similar to 
the preceding, but larger.. W., 6'80-7’40; B., 2 , 00-2'30 (B., B., and R.). 
Range. — Coasts and islands of Arctic Ocean, from n. and w. Greenland 
to Nova Zembla. 
The Tufted Puffin {12 Lunda cirrhata) inhabits the North Pacific 
from California to Alaska. The specimen figured by Audubon was said by 
him to have been procured at the mouth of the Kennebec River, Maine. 
It has also been recorded from Greenland. 
The Ancient Murrelet {21 Synthliboramphus antiquus ) of the North 
Pacific has been once recorded from Wisconsin. 
27. Cepphus grylle {Linn.). Black Guillemot. Ads. in summer . — 
Sooty black, lighter below and with slight greenish reflections above; lesser 
wing-coverts and terminal half of the greater wing-coverts white, the basal 
half of the greater coverts black; linings of the wings white. Ads. in winter . — 
Upperparts gray or black, the feathers all more or less tipped with white; 
wings as in summer; underparts white. Im. — Upperparts as in winter 
adults; underparts white, mottled with black; wing-coverts tipped with 
black. L., 13-00; W., 6*25; Tar., 1*25; B., P20. 
Range. — Coasts of e. N. Am. and nw. Europe. In Am. breeds from s. 
Greenland and Ungava to Maine; winters from Cumberland Sound s. to 
Cape Cod and casually to N. J. ; accidental in Pa. 
Long Island, A. V. in winter, one record. 
Nest, in the crevices and fissures of cliffs and rocky places. Eggs, 2-3, 
dull white, sometimes with a greenish tinge, more or less heavily spotted 
with clear and obscure dark chocolate markings, more numerous, and 
* sometimes confluent at the larger end. 2T8 x 1‘40. Date, Grand Menan, 
N. B., June 14. 
Whether in black summer or grayish winter plumage, the Guille- 
mot’s white wing-coverts on a black wing are a conspicuous and 
unmistakable identification mark, whether the bird is swimming or 
flying. 
Guillemots (in England this name is applied to the Murre, Lomvia) 
are not usually found in the great colonies of Murres and Puffins, but 
nest apart by themselves. They stand on the whole foot or tarsus and 
often sit or lie comfortably on their lower parts. When approached they 
emit a high, squealing whistle, opening wide their coral-lined mouths. 
They feed their young largely on sand-eels, and it is a common sight 
to see them with a number of these fish hanging from the sides of their 
