. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 524 THE DIVING I3IRDS — PYQOPODES. Fratercula arctica. THE COMMOH PUFFIN. Alca nrctica, Linn. S. N. I. 1758, 13, no. 3; id. 12, 1. 1706, 211, no. 3. FnUcrculaarcliai, Stei>iiens, Shaw's Oi-n. Zool. XIII. 18i!5, 37. —Cuueh, Pr. Diilnil. Acad. 1868, 21 ; Key, 1872, 340 ; flieck List, 1873, no. 618; od. 2, 1882, no. 854. — BuiiEAU, Bull. Soc. Zool. Franw, 1878, jd. iv. fi, no. 104 (= young). Alca labradoria, Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 550, no. 0 (= young). Mormon polaris, Buehm, Isis, 1826, 985. Morm
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 524 THE DIVING I3IRDS — PYQOPODES. Fratercula arctica. THE COMMOH PUFFIN. Alca nrctica, Linn. S. N. I. 1758, 13, no. 3; id. 12, 1. 1706, 211, no. 3. FnUcrculaarcliai, Stei>iiens, Shaw's Oi-n. Zool. XIII. 18i!5, 37. —Cuueh, Pr. Diilnil. Acad. 1868, 21 ; Key, 1872, 340 ; flieck List, 1873, no. 618; od. 2, 1882, no. 854. — BuiiEAU, Bull. Soc. Zool. Franw, 1878, jd. iv. fi, no. 104 (= young). Alca labradoria, Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 550, no. 0 (= young). Mormon polaris, Buehm, Isis, 1826, 985. Mormon Grabce, Buehm, ViJg. Deutschl. 1831, 999. Had. Coasts and islands of the North Atlantic, as far as Southern Greenland ; south in winter to Atlantic States, an<l breeding' as far south as France and the Iky of Fumly. Sp. Char. Adult, in breediwj-season: Pileuni , inclining' to brownish slate, darker along the lateral margin, lighter anteriorly, the sometimes almost ashy ; rest of the head, including chin and throat, light ashy, the throat with a darker suffusion on each side ; broad collar across foreneck fuligiuous-dusky, growing gradually black on sides of ueck, the nape. /'. arctica, winter adult. and entire upper parts uniform deep black. Lower parts white, the aides (Ijeneath wings) gray- ish fuliginous ; lining of wings light smoky gray. " Bill with the basal rim and the first ridge cf the upper mandible dull yellow, the intervening space grayish blue ; basal margin of lower mandible bright red ; first ridge and intervening space as in the upper, the rest bright red (carmine tinged with vermilion) ; membrane at the base of the gape gamlioge-yellow, inside of mouth, and tongue, yellow ; edges of eyelids vermilion, horny appendages of eyelids grayish blue ; iris light blue ; feet vermilion, claws black"' (Audubon). Adult, vnnter plumage: Similar to ' " Adult (hrceding-plumage). — Iris hnzol-brown. Eyelids vermilion-rnd
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