. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . ed by the bird,white, occasionally mottled with green-ish. Very social, friendly birds whenbreeding. When annoyed utter a croak-ing cry. Breed in July from the Bayof Fundy northward; comes south inOct. to N. J.; goes north in April. Inwinter keeps well out to sea, rarely ap-proaching land, excepting islands orpoints that project into the ocean. 1*. LARGE-BILLED PUFFIN, GLACiAiJS. Similar to 1, but a little larger with the billproportionately larger. Coasts and islands of the ArcticOcean, northern and western (Greenland; probably rangi
. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . ed by the bird,white, occasionally mottled with green-ish. Very social, friendly birds whenbreeding. When annoyed utter a croak-ing cry. Breed in July from the Bayof Fundy northward; comes south inOct. to N. J.; goes north in April. Inwinter keeps well out to sea, rarely ap-proaching land, excepting islands orpoints that project into the ocean. 1*. LARGE-BILLED PUFFIN, GLACiAiJS. Similar to 1, but a little larger with the billproportionately larger. Coasts and islands of the ArcticOcean, northern and western (Greenland; probably rangingsouthward in winter. f. Crested Puffins. Lunda. Both sides of head in breeding season with a large, pen-dent tuft of silky, straw-colored feathers; general form ofbill as in e, but the under mandible is without grooves, andthere are no horny appendages on eyelids. 1. TUFTED PUFFIN, L. cikkhata. Differs from a,1 in being sooty gray beneath in all stages. Coasts and is-lands of the north Pacilic: accidental in the Bay of Fundyand Kennebeck River, e. A, e, 1 DIRECTOKY TO BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 21 g. Murrelets. Synthliboramphus. Bill, short, somewhat compressed; rather small, short-necked, compact birds, auk-like in general habit; lead-col-ored above; white beneath. 1. ANCIENT MURRELET, S. antiquus. long; topand sides of head, throat, and fore neck, black ; sides of neckand a broad stripe on either side of back of head, white ; up-per back, streaked with white ; in winter the throat is whiteand the white streakings above are absent. Coasts and is-lands of the north Pacific; accidental in Wisconsin. r>. TXJBE-]>rOSEr> SW^IMilMLEPtS. Ocean-inhabiting birds of varying sizes, but always withlong, narrow wings, webbed anterior toes, and nostrils moreor less protected by exter- Fig. 18. nal tubes which open for-ward, figs. 18, 20, 22, of the species movewith ease upon the wing,and among them are foundsome of the strongest fiy-ing birds known : all sw
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