. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 340 ALCIDiE, AUKS. GEN. 318-9. murres, puffins and gannets ; egg generally single, and deposited in a rift of rooks; 3X2, white or whitish variously speckled and blotched with brown. Comes S. in winter to the Middle States. N. Pacific, casually. Nutt., ii, 547; AuD., vii, 247, pi. 466; Cass, in Bd., 901; Coues, I. c. 18, and oj>. cit. 1861,
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 340 ALCIDiE, AUKS. GEN. 318-9. murres, puffins and gannets ; egg generally single, and deposited in a rift of rooks; 3X2, white or whitish variously speckled and blotched with brown. Comes S. in winter to the Middle States. N. Pacific, casually. Nutt., ii, 547; AuD., vii, 247, pi. 466; Cass, in Bd., 901; Coues, I. c. 18, and oj>. cit. 1861, 249 torda. 318-9. Genus rEATEECULA Brisson. * Not crested; eyelids appendaged; under mandible snlcate, like the upper, the grooves convex forward ; culmen simple, with one curve ; base of bill bossed ; corners of mouth callous. Blackish, including the throat, the sides of the head ashy-gray, with dusky maxillary patches (whole face dusky in the young) ; below, white ; bill red, blue and j-ellow ; feet red. {Fratercula.) Horned Puffin. A slender sharp spur on upper eyelid. Black of throat reaching the bill. 14J ; wing 7^ ; tail 2f ; bill 2 ; tarsus 1^. N. Pacific ; not authentic on our Atlantic Coast. Mormon glacialis Aud., vii, 236, pi. 463; M. cornicidata Cass, in Bd., 902; Coues, I. c. 24. corniculata. Common Puffin. Sea Parrot. A thick blunt excrescence on eyelids. Black of throat not reaching the bill. 13J; wing 6J; tarsus 1; bill 2, depth at base IJ. N. Atlantic, breeding in vast numbers, in burrows; egg 2JXlf, ft-. Fig. 216. Common Puffin. broadly ovoid, rough-granular, white or whitish, more rarely brownish, obsoletely or not at all variegated. S. in winter to the Middle States (to Georgia, Audubon). Nutt., ii, 542; Aud., vii, 238, pL 464; Cass, in Bd., 903; Coues, I. c. 21, and op. cit. 1861, 251 aecticus. Var. GLACIALIS, from the Arctic Coasts, is rather larger, especially the bill, which is about 2-'- long, l^-lf deep at base. Cass, in Bd., 903 ; Coues, I. c. 23. ** A
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