Plate CCCCII. Fig. 5. Adult.
Bill orange-yellow, shorter than the head, stout, straight, with the
dorsal line arched, and an oblong compressed knob on the ridge between
the nostrils, which are linear, and placed in the bare skin; feet
greyish-yellow; upper parts black, as are the cheeks, the upper part
and sides of the fore neck; the lower parts white; two decurved bands
of white slender feathers on each side of the head, one commencing
over the eye, the other at the angle of the mouth; tail very short,
even, of sixteen feathers.
_Adult_, 15-1/2, wing, 6-10/12.
North-west coast of America.
Cerorhyncha occidentalis, Bonap. Syn. p. 428.
Western cerorhyncha, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 538.
Horned-billed Guillemot, Ceratorhyncha occidentalis, Aud. Orn.
Biog. v. v. p. 104.