. Key to North American birds. 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 and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. 804 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.—PYGOPODES. basal collar, the nasal saddle and pair of subnasal strips; the mandibular shoe and basal strip; three large symmetrical piec
. Key to North American birds. 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 and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. 804 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.—PYGOPODES. basal collar, the nasal saddle and pair of subnasal strips; the mandibular shoe and basal strip; three large symmetrical pieces and two pairs of small lateral pieces, in all seven. (Thus as in F. arctica, lacking only the pair of prenasal strips; thus exactly as supposed to be the case in F. cornictdata. The loss of the pieces of the upper mandible makes the same difference in the bill as occurs in F. arctica; but the moult of the mandibular shoe effects less change in the appearance of the bill). 856. L. cirra'ta (Lat. cirrata, having curly locks. Figs. 534, 535.) Tufted Puffin. Adult in sunnner: Crests about 4 inches long, straw-yellow, some of the posterior feathers black at base; these bundles of silky, glossy feathers with very delicate shafts and loosened webs; they chiefly sprout from what corresponds to the furrow in the plumage of F. arctica. Face white, broadly of tliis color on sides of head to beyond eyes (as far as the crests), narrowly across forehead and chin, the bill being thus entirely sur- rounded by white. Cro^vn between the crests, and entire upper paits, excepting the extreme forehead and a line along the forearm, glossy blue- black. Entire under parts, excepting Fig. of !/o««ff Tufted Puffin, nat. size. extreme chin, and including sides of bind head and sides of neck, sooty brownish-black, more grayish on the belly, the lining of wings smoky-gray, the under taU-coverts quite black. Wings and taU black, their inner webs brownish-black, the shaft of the first primar
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