0RNITHC>L0GICAL KXPL0RATI0N8. 



59 



1768. 

 1821, 



15. Fratercitla* corniculata (Naum.). 

 -Alca arciua 3, G.mel., Sjst. Nat., 1., 2, p. r>49. 



Mormon corniculafa Naumann, Isis, 18*21 (p. 782, taf. 7, figg. 3, 4). — Kittlitz, 

 Kupfertaf., I, p. :}, taf. 1, fig. 1 (1832).— /(Z., Denkvv., I p. 301 (1858).— MlD- 

 DEND., Sibir. Reise, II, 2, p. 240 (1853). — Cassin, Pr. Acad. Philada., 1862, p. 

 324.— SwiNH., P. Z. S., 18(53. p. 331.— Dall & Bannist., Tr. Chic. Acad. 

 I, 1869, p. 308.— Dall, Avif. Aleut. Isl. Unal. eastw., p. 10(1873).— Id., Avif. 

 Aleut. Isl. west Unal., p. 10 (1874). — Taczan., Orn. Faun. Vost. Sibir., 

 p. 74 (1877).— /<7., Bull. Soc. Zool. Fiance, 1877, p. 52.— Blakist. & Pryer, 

 Tr. As. Soc. Jap., VIII, 1860, p. V9.—Iid., ibid., X, 1882, p. 89.— Palmi?:n, 

 Swed. Cat. Loud. Fish. Exh., p. 201 (1883).— Saunders, Ibis, 1883, p. 348.— 

 Blakist., Amend. List B. Jap., jtp. 29, 31 (1884).— Seeb., Ibis, 1884, p. 

 174.— Fraterciila c. Kittl., Deukw. Roise, II, p. 224 (1858).— /d., Journ. f. 

 Orn., 1858, p. 389.— Finsch, Abb. Bnni. Ver., Ill, 1872, p. 82.— Coues, in 

 Elliott's Air. Alaska, p. 202 (1875).— Dybow. Sitzb. Dorp. Nat. Ges. 1881, 

 p. — . Id. Orn. Centrbl., 1882, p. 40.— Elliott, Monogr. Seal Isl., p. 133, 

 (1882).— Bean, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, p. 171.— Taczan., Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, 1882, p. 398. — Nelson, Cruif^e Corwin, p. 115 (1883).- -Turner, 

 Auk, 1885, p. 159. 



1826. — Lunda arciica Pall., Zoogr. Ross. As. II, p. 3G5 (imrt). — Fratercula a. Bureau, 

 Bull. Soc Zool. Franco, 1879, p. 23 (!). 



1831. — Mormon aepteiitrionale Kittlitz, Isis, 1831, p. 1105. 



1835. — Mormon gJacialia AuDun., Orn. Biogr., Ill (p. 599, pi. 293, fig. 1) {nee Temm., 

 1S20).— Fratercula g. Vigors, Zool. Voy. Blossom, Ornith. p. 33 (1839). 



List of specimens collected. 



Locality. 



Bering Island j May 2G, 1883 



do I June 14,1882 



, do ! May 21,1882 



do I May 31,1882 



do I Juno 8,1882 



do I Feb. 24, 1883 



mm, 

 (341) 



342 

 343 

 357 



mm 

 183 



j 173 

 I 177 

 j 173 

 188 

 ! 174' 



mm. 

 30 

 49 

 52 

 49 

 51 

 51 



No. 89089.— Iris, dark pray with a tinge of brownish. The soft " eye-horns " brownish black with a 

 dflicate, silky gloss; naked eye-ring vermilion. Tip of bill, until between second and third groove, 

 8almon-red along culmen and gonys, elsewhere brownish red ; base of bill very light and bright lemon 

 yellow, the tallosity at the coiner of nifiith bright orange, as is also the inteiior of the mouth and the 

 tongue. Feet colored between s.ilmon-red and flesh-color; webs scarcely darker; under side of tarsus 

 and of outer and inner toes browui.^b ; that of the middle toe and of the webs only a little deeper red 

 than the upper surface ; nails brownish black. 



No. 89090— Iris dark brownish gray. Bill: Tip blood-red, brownish behind and below, border of • 

 liind groove almost black ; basal part light lemon yellow ; callosity at corner of mouth bright orange. 

 Eye-ring vermilion ; horn above and below the eye brownish black with silky gloss. Feet reddish 

 orange, outside paler, livid ; sjles reddish brown. 



No. 89091. — Iris brownish gray. 



No. 92932. — No detailed description of the color of the bill made, ns it was drawn and painted Imme- 

 diately (see pi. iii, fig. 3). Feet whitish flesh-color tinged with bluish; webs brownish' gray, tarsus 

 and toes below blackish brown. Stomach empty. Very lean. 



•The application of the generic name, as indicated in Cones's second check-list, 

 seems somewhat far-fetched (in the second edition of the "Key " he asks, " What appli- 



