auk

Of the latter some have three toes, as the penguin, auk, &c.; others have four.

Of all the Auk tribe, so far as my experience goes, the Puffin flies the most.

Aquatic birds of passage of the auk kind on our western coasts; called also razor-bills.

Initially, he was a hunter-naturalist, but scientific enough to publish in the Auk and the Journal of Heredity.