30 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1893. 



*8. Urinator lumme. Red-throated Loon. 



Specimens examined were from the coast as far south as Tacoma. 

 None met with inland. 



®9. Lunda cirrhata. Tufted Puffin. 



. Abundant on coast and Islands of Straits of Fuca and Gulf of 



Georgia. Not noted on Puget Sound, 



•10. Ptychoramphus aleuticus. Cassin's Auklet. 



Specimens from Puget Sound iu Edwards Bros, collection. 

 *11. Simorhynchus pusillus (?). Least Auklet. 



A straggler on Puget Sound — Edwards Bros. 1 



12. Synthliboramphus antiquus. Ancient Murrelet. 



A specimen from the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, taken 

 by W. S. Lindley, is in the collection. 



13, Brachyramphus marmoratus. Marbled Murrelet. 

 Abundant resident on Puget Sound and Gulf of Georgia. 



■14. Cepphus columba. Pigeon Guillemot. 



Abundant. Same distribution as last. 

 *15. TJria troile californica. California Murre. 



A pair seen on Puget Sound near Nisqually. 



16. Larus glaucescens. Glaucous-winged Gull. 



Abound in the Sound and sea-coast harbors. 



17. Larus occidentalis. Western Gull. 

 Associates abundantly with preceding. 



*18. Larus argentatus smithsonianus. American Herring Gull. 



Less abundant than preceding species. 



19. Larus californicus. California. Gull. 



More abundant than L. a. smithsonianus. 



20. Larus delawarensis. Ring-billed Gull. 



Abundantly associating with next species in all sea-coast harbors 

 and inlets. 



21. Larus brachyrhynchus. Short-billed Gull. 

 The most abundant of the Pacific Laridce.. 



22. Larus Philadelphia. Bonaparte's Gull. 



Migrating and feeding in dense flocks over sea-coast harbors and 

 river mouths the latter part of April. Breed about interior lakes 

 and rivers of British Columbia, 



1 Auk, January, 1893. 



