TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 99 



In addition to the cotypes mentioned above, there was at least one other, 

 No. 15534 (Raraka Island) ; this bird was sent to the Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences in 1870 and was there destroyed in the Great Fire. 



Family ALCIDAE: Auks, Auklets, Murres 

 Genus URIA Brisson 



Uria aalge inornata Salomonsen 



Ibis (13) 2 (1) : 128, January 1, 1932. 

 170323. Adult male (not female). Saint Matthew Island (lat. 60°20' N., 

 long. 172°30' W.), Bering Sea. July 15, 1899. Collected by Leon J. 

 Cole. 

 Catarractes Californicus H. Bryant 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 8: 142 (not earlier than July), 1861. 

 =Uria aalge calif ornica (H. Bryant). See Grinnell, Univ. California 

 Publ. Zool. 38: 274, 1932; Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 92: 58-59, 

 1943. 

 13727. Adult (sex not indicated). Farallon Islands, San Francisco 

 County, California. July 5, 1859. Collected by James Hepburn. Orig- 

 inal number 13. 

 17404. Adult female. Farallon Islands, San Francisco County, California. 

 Entered into the museum register on July 7, 1860. Collected by or for 

 Ferdinand Gruber. 

 17407. Adult male. Farallon Islands, San Francisco County, California. 

 Entered into the museum register on July 7, 1860. Collected by or for 

 Ferdinand Gruber. 

 Bryant had before him "the whole series belonging to the Smithsonian 

 Institution" {op. cit., p. 134). The specimens of this form then in the 

 Museum numbered ten, of which nine came from the Farallones. In addi- 

 tion to the three listed above, these were: No. 17400, a female (sent to 

 "#4") ; Nos. 17401 and 17402, males (lost without trace) ; No. 17403, a 

 female (sent to "Audubon Club") ; No. 17405, a female (sent to "#2"= 

 University of Michigan) ; and No. 17406, a male (lost without trace). 



A male cotype in Cambridge (MCZ 46265) may represent No. 17401, No. 

 17402, or No. 17406. 



Genus CEPPIIUS Pallas 



Cepphus snowi Stejneger 



Auk 14 (2) : 201, April 1897. 

 =Cepphus columba snowi Stejneger. See Peters, Checklist of birds of the 



world 2: 354, 1934. 

 159351. Adult male. Raikoke Island (about lat. 48°25' N., long. 153°00' 

 E.), Kuril Islands, southwest of Kamchatka. August 23, 1896. Col- 

 lected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. Original number 7009. 



