. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . ^f RHINOCLros VUKLET Colin white =iometimLs lieavily blotched, as above, and again unspotted 24 DIVING BIRDS 17. Paroquet Auklet.—Plialens Hange.—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 itlias uo wliite spot over tlie eye, and the breast iswhite. It also has a slender plume extendingfrom back of the eye. The bill is very peculiar
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . ^f RHINOCLros VUKLET Colin white =iometimLs lieavily blotched, as above, and again unspotted 24 DIVING BIRDS 17. Paroquet Auklet.—Plialens Hange.—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 itlias uo wliite spot over tlie eye, and the breast iswhite. It also has a slender plume extendingfrom back of the eye. The bill is very peculiar,being ciuite 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 while egg is laid in May. Size Data.—Rocky Islet in the Aleutians, June22, 1S90, Single egg laid on bare rock in a deepcrevice. Collector, Capt. S. Wilson.
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