Plate CCXCIII. Male.
Bill with three curved grooves on each of the mandibles toward the
end, a compressed addition to the ridge about three-quarters of an
inch long, its colour, and that of the feet, orange-yellow; on the
upper eyelid an oblong, tapering, horny body, directed upwards and
backwards, on the lower an adherent linear body of the same nature;
sides of the head, and the lower parts, white; upper part of head
light brownish-grey, tinged with lilac; a broad collar extending to
the lower mandible; of a dark greyish-brown tint below, gradually
passing into the colour of the upper parts, which is brownish-black,
glossed with blue; primary quills and their coverts blackish-brown;
part of the sides and under wing-coverts greyish-brown.
_Male_, 13, 24-1/2.
Very rare, and in winter only, off the Bay of Fundy.
Mormon glacialis, Bonap. Syn. p. 430.
Large-billed Puffin, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 541.
Large-billed Puffin, Mormon glacialis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii.
p. 599.