. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . RHINOCEROS AUKLET Color white, sometimes heavily blotched, as above, and again unspotted 24 DIVING BIRDS 17- Paroquet Auklet. Phaleris psittacula. Range.—The Alaskan Coast, casually farthersouth in winter. This bird is about the same size as the preced-ing, and the plumage is similar, except that ithas no white spot over the eye, and the breast iswhite. It also has a slender plume extendingfrom back of the eye. The bill is very
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . RHINOCEROS AUKLET Color white, sometimes heavily blotched, as above, and again unspotted 24 DIVING BIRDS 17- Paroquet Auklet. Phaleris psittacula. Range.—The Alaskan Coast, casually farthersouth in winter. This bird is about the same size as the preced-ing, and the plumage is similar, except that ithas no white spot over the eye, and the breast iswhite. It also has a slender plume extendingfrom back of the eye. The bill is very quite deep and rounded and having an up-ward tendency. It is orange red in color. They Whitebreed very commonly on the islands of BeringStrait. Their eggs are laid in the crevices of thecliff, often several feet in and by a crooked pathso that it is impossible to reach them. The sin-gle chalky white egg is laid in May. Size Data.—Rocky Islet in the Aleutians, June22, L890, Single egg laid on bare rock in a deepcrevice. Collector, Capt. S. Wilson. IS. Crested Auklet. Aethia (F3 Crested Auklet Alaska Coast. Similar in form and plumage to the latter, exceptthat the whole under parts are may and it has a crest of recurved nesting season begins in May. the birds nesting upon the same islandsand in the same kinds of sites as the last species. The single egg is chalkywhite. Size Data.— 1nak Alaska. .Inly 1, 1!»00. Egg laid in acrevice among the rocks. Collector, l\ Weston. l!>. Whiskered Auklet. Aethia pygmaea. Range.—The Alaska Coast. Much smaller than the preceding; bnt 7.:. in. in length. Breast gray, belly White; a -mall tnlt of recurved feathers on the forehead and -lender whitepinnies from base of bill over the eye and from under the eye, backwards. Thebill in summer is a brighl vermillion color, on some of the islands of theAleutian chain they breed quite abundantly. The nests are placed back inthe crev
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