28 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL, MUSEUM vol. 80 



Aethia pu^illa, Beooks, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 59, p. 371, 1915. — Heesett, 

 Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 6, no. 2, p, 9, 1916. — Haetebt, Die Vogel (3er 

 palaarktischen Fauna, vol. 3, p. 1787, 1921. — Bailey, Condor, vol. 27, p. 64, 

 1925. 



Ciceronia pnsiUa, Riixjway, U. S, Nat. Mus. Bull. 50, vol. 8, p. 768, 1919. 



Finsch ^^ discussed the unpublished copper plates of J. F. v. 

 Brandt's work for the Icones Avium Rossicarum, and identified the 

 figures and their names and localities. Figures 6 and 7 on plate VI 

 are given on page 21 as follows : " 6.7. Phaleris pi/gmaea-Simorhya- 

 chics pusillus (Pall.) — St. Lorenz." On page 81, however, under the 

 account of Simorhynchus pusillti^, no mention is made of St. Law- 

 rence Island. It is doubtful if Brandt's figure was drawn from a 

 bird from St. Lawrence Island. 



Vigors states that " specimens of these birds were brought off from 

 St. Lawrence Island in great abundance." Nelson found the species 

 abundant there and so did Hersey, Brooks, and Bailey. Thus, 

 Brooks found " them in enormous numbers at St. Lawrence Island." 

 Bailey writes that this species " is the most abundant of the auklets 

 * * *. At St. Lawrence Island we saw thousands of them in the 

 breeding colony at Sivunga, where they were preparing to nest among 

 the rocks and rounded boulders." 



Collins collected a male and a female at Gambell in July. Both 

 are in somewhat worn plumage. 



AETHIA PYGMAEA (Gmelin) 



Whiskered AuKLErr 



Alca pygmaea Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. ii, p. 555, 1789 (based on the 

 Pygmy Auk, Pennant, Arctic zoology, vol. 2, p. 513: Circa insulam avium 

 inter Asiam septentrionalem et Americam=Islands in Bering Sea). 



Mormon cristatellus (not Alca cristatella Pallas, 1769), CuvaEE, in Choris's Voy- 

 age pittoresque autour du monde, lies Aleoutiennes, p. 20, pi. 12, 1882. 



Alcella pygmaea, Ridgway, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 50, vol. 8, p. 772, 1919. 



M. Choris received specimens of the whiskered auklet from the 

 natives of St. Lawrence Island. Kidgway considers Cuvier's name, 

 based on one of Choris's specimens, as a synonym of pygmaea^ but he 

 appears to consider the locality open to question. 



FRATERCULA CORNICULATA (Naumann) 

 HOENEID PU¥FIN 



Mormon oorniculata Naumann, Isis, vol. 9, Band ii. Heft 8, col. 782 (pi. vii, 



figs. 3, 4), 1821 (Kamchatka). 

 Fratercula corniculata, Txhiner, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, no. 11, p. 119, 1886 — 



Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 107, p. 103, 1919.— Bailey, Condor, vol. 27, p. 62, 



1925. 



siAbh. Naturw. Ver. Bremen, vol. 1, 1872. 



