148 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Synthliboramphus antiquus (Gmelin). Ancient Murrelet. [21.] 



Alca antiqua Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 554. Based on the An- 

 cient Auk Pennant, Arct. Zool., II, 512. (in mari inter Camtschatcam, 

 insulas Kuriles et Americam intermedio = Bering Sea.) 



Range. — Breeds on Forrester Island, Sangar Island (Queen Charlotte 

 group), Kodiak, and the Aleutian Islands to the Near Islands, and from 

 Kamchatka to the Commander Islands, Kurile Islands, and northern Japan. 

 Winters from the Aleutians south to Lower California (Ensenada), and to 

 Japan. Accidental in Idaho, Wisconsin, southern Quebec, Ontario, and on 

 Lake Erie; casual on the Pribilof Islands. 



Genus PTYCHORAMPHUS Brandt. 



Plychoraniphus Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Petersb., II, No. 22, 

 March 19, 1837, col. 347. Type, by monotypy, Uria aleutica Pallas. 



Ptychoramphus aleuticus (Pallas) . Cassin's Auklet. [16.] 



Uria Aleutica Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiatica, II, 1811, 370. (Russis ad 

 oceanum Orientalem = North Pacific Ocean.) 



Range. — -Breeds from the Aleutian and Queen Charlotte islands to Lower 

 California (lat. 27°). Winters on the open seas as far north as Puget Sound, 

 Washington. 



Genus CYCLORRHYNCHUS Kaup. 



Cyclorrhynchus Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, 155. 

 Type, by monotypy, Alca ■psittacula Pallas. 



Cyclorrhynchus psittacula (Pallas). Paroquet Auklet. [17.] 



Alca psiltacula Pallas, Spic. Zool., I, Fasc. v, 1769, 13 (pi. ii; pi. v, figs. 

 4-6). (in mari Kamtschatkam . . . et circa insulas partim versus 

 laponiam partim versus Americam Septentrionalem sparsus = Kam- 

 chatka.) 



Range. — Breeds from northwestern Alaska and the northern coast of eastern 

 Siberia south to the Aleutian Islands. Winters south to the coasts of Oregon 

 and central California, and in the Kurile Islands. Accidental on Franklin 

 Bay, Arctic America. 



Genus AETHIA Merrem. 



Aethia Merrem, Vers. Grundr. Allgem. Gesch. und nat. Eintheil. Vogel, I 

 (Tentamen Nat. Syst. Avium, 7, 13, 20), 1788. Type, by monotypy, 

 Alca cristatella Pallas. 



