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Range. — -Now extinct; last one killed on Eldery Island, Iceland, in 1844. 

 Former known breeding places: Funk Island, Newfoundland, the Faroes, 

 Orkneys (Papa Westray), islands off the southwest coast of Iceland, and prob- 

 bably on the coast of Norway. In winter south to Maine and Massachusetts, 

 casually to South Carolina and Florida, and in Europe to Denmark, France, 

 and northern Spain. Casual on the outer Hebrides, St. Kilda, the Irish coast, 

 and on the Mediterranean Sea. 



Subfamily ALCINAE. Auks and Murres. 



Genus ALCA Linnaeus. 



Alca Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 130. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Alca torda Linnaeus. (Alca cited in synonymy; cf. Op. 16, Internat. 

 Comm. Zool. Nomencl). 



Alca torda Linnaeus. Razor-billed Auk. [32.] 



Alca Torda Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 130. (in Europae 

 borealis oceano = southern Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern Greenland and middle Labrador to New- 

 foundland and New Brunswick (Bay of Fundy), formerly to Maine; also from 

 Iceland east to the British Isles, Norway, and Lapland. Winters from 

 southern Labrador and Ontario to New York (Long Island) and casually to 

 North Carolina (Currituck Sound); in Europe from the British Isles to the 

 Azores and Canaries, and on the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas. 



Genus URIA Brisson. 



Uria Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 52; VI, 70. Type, by tautonymy, Uria 

 Brisson = CoZ?/ot6 us aalge Pontoppidan. 



Uria aalge aalge (Pontoppidan). Atlantic Murre. [30.] 



Colymbus aalge Pontoppidan, Danske Atlas, I, 1763, 621, (pi. xxvi). 

 (Iceland.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern Greenland, southern Labrador, and the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence south to Nova Scotia; also in northwestern Europe, Iceland, 

 the Faroes, Orkneys, and Shetlands. Winters south to Maine, casually to 

 Massachusetts, and in the Eastern Hemisphere to the Mediterranean Sea and 

 coast of Morocco. Accidental on Hudson Bay. 



