Tufted Puffin

Tufted Puffin
Mormon cirrhatus, Latham [now Fratercula cirrhata]
Octavo edition, plate 462

“The specimen from which I drew the figure of this singular looking bird, was procured at the mouth of the Kennebeck River, in Maine. It was shot by a fisherman gunner, while standing on some floating ice, in the winter of 1831-32. No other individual was seen. I could not obtain any information respecting its habits; but as the bird was in tolerable order, I hope that my figures of it will prove not unacceptable.”

John James Audubon, Birds of America (New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844), vol. 7, p. 234.

View bird in National Audubon Society Guide to North American Birds.