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     Long Island, A. V. in winter. 
     
     Eat in a burrow in the ground or in crevices among rocks. Egg, one, dull 
     
     white, sometimes with obscure markings, 2-49 x 1'68. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. Brewster, in describing his experience with this species in the 
     
     Gulf of St. Lawrence, writes: “The first report of our guns brought 
     
     dozens tumbling from their nests. Their manner of descending from 
     
     the higher portions of the clifi was peculiar. Launching into the air 
     
     with beads depressed and wings held stiflly at a sharp angle above their 
     
     backs, they would shoot down like meteors, checking their speed by an 
     
     upward turn just before reaching the water. In a few minutes scores 
     
     had collected about us. They were perfectly silent and very tame, 
     
     passing and repassing over and by us, often coming within ten or fif- 
     
     teen yards. On such occasions their flight has a curious resemblance 
     
     to that of a Woodcock, but when coming in from the fishing grounds 
     
     they skim close to the waves, and the wings are moved more in the 
     
     manner of a Duck ” (Proc. Best. Soc. Nat. Hist., xxii, 1883, p. 407). 
     
    
   
   
    
     18a. 1‘. a. glacians (Tamm). LARGE-BILLED Purim—Similar to 
     
     the preceding, but larger. W., 6'80—7'40; B., 200—230 (B., B., and R.). 
     
    

    
     Ifange.—“ Coast and islands of the Arctic Ocean from Spitzbergen to 
     
     Baffin’s Bay” (A. 0. U.). , 
     
    

    
     The TUFTED PUFFIN (12. Lunda cirrhata) inhabits the North Pacific from 
     
     California to Alaska. The specimen figured by Audubon was said by him 
     
     to have been procured at the mouth of the Kennebec River, Maine. There is 
     
     no other record of its occurrence on the Atlantic coast. 
     
    
   
   
    
     27. Cepphus grylle (Lima). BLACK GUILLEMOT; SEA PIGEON. Ad. 
     
     in summer.—-Sooty black, lighter below and with slight greenish reflections 
     
     above; lesser wing-eoverts and terminal half of the greater wing-coverts 
     
     white, the basal half of the greater coverta black ; linings of the wings white. 
     
     Ad. in winter.—Upper parts gray or black, the feathers all more or less tipped 
     
     with white; wings as in summer; under parts white Im.——Upper parts as 
     
     in winter adults; under parts white, mottled with black; wing-coverts tipped 
     
     with black. L., 1300; W.. 6-25; Tan, 1‘25; B., 1‘20. 
     
    

    
     Range—Breeds in North America from the Bay of Fundy (Grand Menan) 
     
     northward, and migrates southward regularly to Cape Cod, and rarely to Con- 
     
     necticut and Long Island; accidental in Pennsylvania. 
     
    

    
     Long Island, A. V. in winter. 
     
    

    
     Nest, in the crev1ces and fissures of cliffs and rocky places. Eggs, two to 
     
     three, dull white, sometimes with a greenish tinge, more or less heavily 
     
     spotted with clear and obscure dark chocolate markings, more numerous and 
     
     sometimes confluent at the larger end. 218 x 1'40. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “They were wary and alert, but allowed me to paddle within easy 
     
     shooting distance without displaying much alarm. When they finally 
     
     concluded I was an unsafe neighbor, they lost no time in getting out 
     
     of sight, diving with surprising suddenness. They usually swam a