. A general history of birds . . \ W K S . / . n/Ar/ ■... ,-f/n//r/i /. -J. -///■>/■// . _ /. AUK. 57 admit of his coining, as a stranger, within gun shot, though in theircompany; but afterwards suffering the boatmen, by themselves, toapproach so near, as to knock it down with an oar. This specimenwas in good preservation in Mr. Bullocks Museum. The sexes ofthis species are called King and Queen of Auks; and by someGair-Fowls. 2.—TUFTED AUK.—Pl. clxx. f. 1. Alca cirvhata, Lid. Orn. ii. 791. Gm. Lin.\. 553. Pall. Spic. v. p. 7. t. 1. & 5. Borowsk. iii. t. Macareux de Kamtschatk
. A general history of birds . . \ W K S . / . n/Ar/ ■... ,-f/n//r/i /. -J. -///■>/■// . _ /. AUK. 57 admit of his coining, as a stranger, within gun shot, though in theircompany; but afterwards suffering the boatmen, by themselves, toapproach so near, as to knock it down with an oar. This specimenwas in good preservation in Mr. Bullocks Museum. The sexes ofthis species are called King and Queen of Auks; and by someGair-Fowls. 2.—TUFTED AUK.—Pl. clxx. f. 1. Alca cirvhata, Lid. Orn. ii. 791. Gm. Lin.\. 553. Pall. Spic. v. p. 7. t. 1. & 5. Borowsk. iii. t. Macareux de Kamtschatka, Buf. ix. 368. PI. enl. , Hist. Kamtsch. Auk, Gen. Si/n. v. 313. pl. 95. f. 1.—the head. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 432. Cooks Last Voy. ii. 411. THIS exceeds the Common Puffin in size, and is nineteeninches in length. The bill nearly two inches long, crossed withthree furrows ; similar in colour and shape to that of the CommonPuffin, and like that, compressed and furrowed on the sides; iridesye
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