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North Carolina, and South Carolina; also from the North Sea and the British 

 Isles to the Azores, Canaries, and Madeira. Accidental near Melville Island, 

 Hudson Bay, and in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, and Bermuda. 



Genus CEPPHUS Pallas. 



Cepphus Pallas, Spic. Zool., I, Fasc. v, 1769, 33. Type, by monotypy, 

 Cepphus ladeolus Pallas =^?co grylle Linnaeus, albino. 



Cepphus grylle grylle (Linnaeus). Black Guillemot. [27.] 



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

 borealis oceano = Southern Sweden.) 



Range. — 'Breeds from central Labrador south to Nova Scotia and Maine; 

 also in Europe from Iceland and Scandinavia to northern Scotland. Winters 

 from Cumberland Sound south to Cape Cod and casually to New Jersey; in 

 Europe south to northern France. ^ 



Cepphus grylle mandti (Mandt). Mandt's Guillemot. [28.] 



Uria ynandtii "Light.," Mandt, 01)s. Hist. Nat. Itin. Groenl., 1822, 30. 

 (Spitzbergen.) 



Range. — Breeds on Arctic coasts and islands south to northern Hudson 

 Bay, James Bay and the mainland of Siberia. Winters in the Arctic Ocean and 

 casually south to Norton Sound, southern Quebec and Lake Ontario. Acci- 

 dental in New Brunswick. 



Cepphus columba Pallas. Pigeon Guillemot. [29.] 



Cepphus Columha Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiatica, II, 1811, 348. (in 

 oceano arctico pariterque circa Camtschatcam et in omni freto inter 

 Sibiriam et Americam = Bering Sea.) 



Range. — Coasts and islands of Bering Sea, Aleutian, Kurile, and Com- 

 mander islands and East Cape south to the Santa Barbara Islands, California, 

 and to northern Japan. Winters north to the Pribilof and Aleutian islands. 



Genus BRACHYRAMPHUS Brandt. 



Brachyramphus Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Petersb., II, No. 

 22, March 19, 1837, col. 346. Type, by subs, desig., Colymbus mar- 

 7noratus Gmelin (Gray, 1840). 



1 An intermediate race connecting this wth the following has been proposed 

 as C. g. arctica Brehm, cf. Austin, Bull. N. E. Bird Banding Asso., V, No. 1, 

 Jan., 1929. 



