ORDER PYGOPODES. 79 



[B 725, C 621, R 747, C 858.] 



HAB. Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from the Aleutian 

 and Kurile Islands northward. 



GENUS SIMORHYNCHUS MERREM. 

 SUBGENUS SIMORHYNCHUS. 



Simorhynchus MERREM, in ERSCH & GRUBER'S Encycl. i sect. II. 

 1819, 405. Type, Alca cristatella PALL. 



18. Simorhynchus cristatellus (PALL.). 



Crested Auklet. 



Alca cristatella PALL. Spic. Zool. V. 1769, 20. pi. iii., pi. v. figs. 7-9. 

 Simorhynchus cristatellus BONAP. Compt. Rend. XLII. 1856, 774. 



[B 7 i 9) 720, C 622, R 748, C 859.] 



HAB. Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from Kadiak and 

 Japan northward. 



SUBGENUS PHALERIS TEMMINCK. 



Phaleris TEMM. Man. Orn. 1820, p. cxii. Type, by elimination, Alca 

 pygmcea GMEL. 



19. Simorhynchus pygmaeus (GMEL.). 



"Whiskered Auklet. 



Alca pygmcea GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 555. 



Simorhynchus pygmceus BRANDT, Mel. Biol. VII. 1869, 222. 



[B 721, C 623, R 749, C 860.] 



HAB. Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from Unalashka 

 through the Aleutian chain to Kamtschatka. 



SUBGENUS CICERONIA REICHENBACH 



Ciceronia REICH. Syst. Av. 1852, p. iii. Type, Phaleris nticroceros 

 BRANDT = Uria pusilla PALL. 



20. Simorhynchus pusillus (PALL.). 



Least Auklet. 



Uria pusilla PALL. Zoog. Rosso- As. II. 1826, 373, pi. 70. 

 Simorhynchus pusillus COUES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 324. 



