. The birds of the Japanese Empire. Birds -- Japan. 281 The Horn-eyed Puffin has long been known to inhabit the Kurile Islands (Pallas^ Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 365), but it was for a long time confused with its Atlantic representative. It has not been recorded from Japan, but probably breeds on the Kurile Islands (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 89), as I have. Head of Fratercula cornieiilata. f natural size. an example obtained in June by Mr. Snow on Shiashkotan, one of the more northerly islands of the group (Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 174). It breeds in great n
. The birds of the Japanese Empire. Birds -- Japan. 281 The Horn-eyed Puffin has long been known to inhabit the Kurile Islands (Pallas^ Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 365), but it was for a long time confused with its Atlantic representative. It has not been recorded from Japan, but probably breeds on the Kurile Islands (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 89), as I have. Head of Fratercula cornieiilata. f natural size. an example obtained in June by Mr. Snow on Shiashkotan, one of the more northerly islands of the group (Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 174). It breeds in great numbers on the islands of the southern shores of the Sea of Okhotsk (Middendorff, Sibirische Reise, ii. p. 240}; whence its range extends eastwards to the Commander Islands, the Aleutian Islands, and the islands on the southern coast of Alaska as far south as Sitka; and northwards through Bering Straits to Cape Lisburne. 276. FRATERCULA CIRRHATA. (TUFTED PUFFIN.) Alca cirrhata, Pallas, Spicilegia Zoologica, pt. v. p. 7 (1780). The Tufted Puffin may be distinguished from its Japanese allies by its combination of the two characters—underparts entirely brown, and tving from carpal joint between 7 and 8 inches Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London, R. H. Porter
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