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187G. IIauvky, M. The Great Auk [Alca impeninn]. <^ For eat and Sinatn, \\, Jxiiy 

 20, 1870, i).38G; 1 tig. 



187G. [Ingkrsoll, E.] [Occurrence of Mergnlns alle in New England.] <^ Foresit 

 (Old Slream, vi, Feb. 10, 1><7('), i>. 4. 



1870. Sci.ATKU, J. Scarcity of tlie Razorbill [Alca torda |. < Zoolof/'ist, t'd ser., xi, luly^ 

 lH70,i>.r.007 



1870. Tuck, J. G. Tlic Piillin [Fratorciila arctica]. <^Zoolo(jiHt, *-id ser., xi, JunO;.. 

 1H70, p. 41)5^. 



1877. Barrows, W. B. Catalogue of the Alcida? contained in the ilusenm of the- 

 Boston Society of Natural History, with a Review and proposed Classificatiou 

 of the Family. < Proc. Hosl. Soc. Xat. nist.,xix, for Apr. 4, 1877; pub. Oct.- 

 Nov.,1877, pp. ir)0-l(i5. 



The paper treats of 21 spp., being tboao tliat the author recognizes as valid, whether 

 specimens of them be in the Museiini or not. These are ranged under the genera FraUr- 

 cula, Phaleris, Mergulus, Brachyrhamphus, Vria, Lomvia, and Alca,- dispensing with sub- 

 ftimilies altogethor. 



1877. Bureau, L. De la Mue du Bee et des Orueinents Palp^braux du Macareux 

 arcticine, Fratereula arctica (Lin. ) Steph. aprfes la saison des amours. <[ Bull. 

 Soc. Zool. de France, 1877, pp. 1-22, table, pll. iv, v. (Aussi stSpar^ment, in-80, 

 Paris, 1877, pp. 1-22, table, pll. iv, v.) 



I have only seen the separate, which however is identical with tlie Bulletin in which the 

 paper originally appeared. In 1879 it was combined with a later paper on same subject, thft 

 two togetlicr being rei.ssnod apait from the Bulletin under the title of the later paper alone. 

 See 1879, same author. • 



This is a contribution of gieat originality, interest, and imi)ortance. It establishes a be. 

 fore uiLSUspf cte'l fact, that Fratereula arctica regulaily moults portions of the homy sheath 

 of the bill, and also the exoreseeiices upon the eyelids. The whole process .anil its results 

 are presented in detail, according to the author's extended and novel researches. Two horse* 

 shoe-shaped pieces, whicli .are saddled on the bases of the upper mandible, and two other pairs- 

 of pieces: together with a similar shoT -shaped piece, and a similar pair of slender pieces, 

 from the under mandible, making in all nine separate portions of the homy covering of the 

 bill, are moulted; a.s is the excrescence ujjon each eyelid. All these deciduous pieces, as well 

 as the peimanent portions of the bill, are elaborately described, and the appearance of th& 

 bird at different seasons, conformably with these extraordinary circum-stances, is also fully 

 presented. The hi.storv of tlie author s experiences — how ho came to make the discovery, 

 and how he established the facts— is au interesting part of tho paper. The conditions of 

 the bill before, during, and after the piocess are figured in color? in an ingenious manner. 

 The author was, of course, greeted with acclamation ; the article was immediately translated, 

 with editorial comment, by E. Coues, ffT tho Bulletin of the Jfuttall Ornithological Club, iii, 

 Apr., 1878, pp. 87-91; and J. E. Ilarting gave a sjTiopsis, with one of the plates, in the Zoolo- 

 gist of that year. The latter I have nol seen. 



M. Bureau's discovery naturally direc ted attention to the various and curious Xorth Pacific 

 allies of F. arctica, raising the expectation, afterward justified, that a similar condition of 

 things would be established among the.io forms. Tho author discreetly forbore to prophecy, 

 but entered upon tho now obvious course of mquirj- which resulted in 1879 in a second ad- 

 mirable paper on tho same subject. 



1877. [GuiNNKLL, G. B.] The Little Auk [Mergulus alle, in Connecticut]. <l Forest 



and Stream, vii, .Jan. 2."), l."^77, p. :>88. 

 1877. Newtox, a. [Remarks on Exhibition of a Variety of tho Guillemot, Uria 



troile. ] <iP.Z.S., Jan. 2, 1877, p. 2. 



"With yelluw bill and feet, and white claws. Attention called to similar conditions of Pica 

 rustica and of Colymbus tnrqnatus. 



1877. [Scorr, W. E. D.] Little Auk (Mergulus alle [inland]). < The Coiiiitrii, i, Dec. 



15, 1877, p. 91. 



1878. A[Li,KN], .J. A. Barrow's "Catalogue of the Alcid;B.'' </?»/?. Xiitl. Ornith, 



Club, iii. No. 2, Apr., 1878, p. 80. 

 Jleview of his paper in Pr. Bost. Soc, xix, 1877, pp. 150-10.^. 



