Plate CCCCII. Fig. 4. Adult.
Bill scarlet, with the tips yellow. Upper mandible with a somewhat
triangular horny plate at the base detached from the other parts, and
a deep oblique groove anterior to the nostrils; lower mandible with a
groove on each side; a tuft of about twenty linear recurved feathers
from the anterior part of the forehead; general colour of upper parts
brownish-black, of lower purplish-grey; a short line of elongated
linear white feathers commencing under the eye, and proceeding along
the side of the neck.
_Adult_, 10, wing, 6-3/4.
North-west coast of America.
Alca cristatella, Gmel. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 552.
Curled-crested Phaleris, Phaleris cristatella, Aud. Orn. Biog.
v. v. p. 102.