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Knobbed-billed Phaleris
Phaleris nodirostris, Bonaparte [now Aethia pusilla]
Octavo edition, plate 468
“This bird, which at first sight bears a considerable resemblance to the Little Guillemot, Mergulus alle, I have also represented from a specimen belonging to the Zoological Society of London. The following description, however, is taken from one in my own possession. The species is said to occur on the north-west coast.”
John James Audubon, Birds of America (New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844), vol. 7, p. 255.
View bird in National Audubon Society Guide to North American Birds.
