. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. FlO. 658. — Californian OuiUemof, iiat. size. this bare turgid space flesh-colored in life, drying pule yellowish. Length ; extent ; wing ; tarsus ; bill along cuhnen , along gape ; ; depth at angle , width at base of nostrils , at angle of mouth N. Athintic and Polar and N. Pacific
. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. FlO. 658. — Californian OuiUemof, iiat. size. this bare turgid space flesh-colored in life, drying pule yellowish. Length ; extent ; wing ; tarsus ; bill along cuhnen , along gape ; ; depth at angle , width at base of nostrils , at angle of mouth N. Athintic and Polar and N. Pacific shores and islands, in myriads; on the Atlantic S. in M'inter to the Middle States, breeding from the Gulf of St. Lawrence northward. The N. Pacific form, unquestionably of the " thick-billed" species, does not exhibit the extreme of shortness and stoutness us just described for the At- lantic ; with a cul- men of about the depth opposite nostrils is hardly 0.(17, thus less than hulf the length of culmon, instead of about hulf; gape nearly The sides of the up- per mandible are char- acteristically diluted and denuded, of a glaucous bluish color; the tip of the bill is less deflexed, though more so than in the connnon guillemot. This is the great " egg-bird " of the high N. Pacific; on St. George's, one of the Prybi'iv group, for example, the birds "go flying around the island in great files and platoons, always circling against or quartcriug, on the wing, at regular hours iu the morning and the evening, making a dark girdle of birds more than a quarter of a mile broad and thirty miles long, whirling round and round the islund, and forcing \ipon the most casual observer a lasting ; The N. Pacific form is L. arra proper; that of the N. Atlantic is " Billunich's guillemot," difleriug as said, and perhaps constituting a subspecies apart (L. a. svarbag). UTAMA'NIA. (Cretan name of the bird.) Razor-bill Auk. Size, form
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