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Range (Coast and islands)

"Coast and islands of the Arctic Ocean from Spitzbergen to Baffin's Bay" (A. O. 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 (Linn.). BLACK GUILLEMOT; SEA PIGEON. Ad. in summer. Sooty black, lighter below and with slight greenish reflections above; lesser wing-coverts and terminal half of the greater wing-coverts white, the basal half of the greater coverts 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., 13.00; W., 6·25; Tar., 1.25; B., 1.20.