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No. 92953.— Iris white. Bill brownish gray. Feet light bluish gray. Found dead on beach. CEsoph- 

 agns, crop, stomach, and intestines filled with a semifluid violet red matter, which I take to be the re- 

 mains of a cephalopocl. Tolerably fat. 



No. 92958. — Iris white. Bill, see colored drawing taken immediately from the fresh bird (tab. iv, 

 fig. 5). Feet bluish gray; joints violet brown; webs and soles blackish. Some of the eggs in the 

 ovary had commenced swelling. New feathers in their sheaths on upper head and neck. 



The present species is a regular breeding bird of both islands, with- 

 out being very plentiful, howe\ er, and seems to be rather scarce on 

 Copper Island, where S.pygmanis is more common than the "Konjuga," 

 a name by which cristatellus is known on Bering Island. 



Like most of the members of the family, many winter on the ocean, 

 not very distant from the islands, as it was among the species which I 

 picked up on the beach after severe gales. 



12. Simorhynchus pusillus (Pall.) 



1826. — Uria pusilla Pallas, Zoogr. Ross. As., II, p. 373. — Flialeris p. Coinde, Rev. 

 Mag. Zool., 1860, p. 403.— Cassin, Pr. Philada. Acad., 1862, p. 324.— D all 

 «fe Bannist., Tr. Chiciig. Acad., I, 1869, p. 309.— Blakist. & Pryer, Tr. 

 As. Soc. Jap., VIII, 1880, p. 17d.— lid., ibid., X, 1882, p. 89.— Blakist., 

 Amend. List B. Jap., p. 31 (1884). — Simorhynchus p. Finsch, Abh. Brem. 

 Ver. IIL 1872, p. 8L— Coues, in Elliott's Aff. Alaska, p. 208 (1675).— Elli- 

 ott, Mouogr. Seal Isl., p. 134 (1882).— Turner, Auk, 1885, p. loQ.—Cicermia 

 p. Taczan., J. f. Orn., 1876, p. 203.— /d., Orn. Faim. Vest. Sibir., p. 74 

 (1877).— /rf., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 51.— DybowskI, Sitzb. Dorpat. 

 Naturf. Ges., 1881, p. —.—Id., Orn. CentralbL, 1882, p. 28.— Id., Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, 1883, p. 350.— Nelson, Cruise Corwin, p. 116 (1883). 



1831.— Phaleris corniculata Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, IV (tab. 16). 



1837. — Phaleris piigmcea Brandt, Bull. Scientif., II, 1837, p. 347 {nee Gmel., 1788). — 

 Simorhynchus p. Schlegel, Mus. P. B. Urinat., p. 23 (1867). — Seeb., Ibis, 

 1884, p. 31. 



1837. — Phaleris microceros Brandt, Bull. Scientif. II, 1837, p. 347. — Dall & Bannist., 

 Tr. Chic. Acad., I, 1869, p. 309.— Ciceronia m. Palm6n, Swed. Cat. Lond. 

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



1838. — Phaleris nodirostra Bonap., Comp. List, p. 66. 



1839. — Cfvorhinca occidentalis ? Vigors, Zool. Voy. Blossom, Orn., p. 33 (nee Bonap.). 



1878. — Mergulus sp. inc., Blakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 210. 



List of specimens collected. 



