Plate CCXLIX. Male.
Bill with four curved grooves on the upper mandible anterior to the
nostrils, the lower smooth, a horny subcylindrical addition to the
ridge at the base about an inch in length, the colour yellowish-red,
the basal rim and ridge towards the end of the upper mandible bright
red; feet bright red; two tufts of loose, acuminate, decurved
feathers on the sides of the head behind the eye; face white; upper
parts brownish-black, glossed with blue, lower sooty-brown, tinged
with grey on the abdomen; part of the sides and under wing-coverts
greyish-brown.
_Male_, 15, 22-1/2.
Extremely rare and accidental on the coast of the United States in
winter. Common in the Arctic Seas, and on the north-west coast of
America.
Alca cirrhata, Lath. Ind. Orn. v. ii. p. 791.
Mormon cirrhatus, Bonap. Syn. p. 429.
Tufted Mormon or Puffin, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 539.
Tufted Puffin, Mormon cirrhatus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p.
364.