BraDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 721 



Uria lachrymans Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 638. — Gray (R.), Birds West 

 Scotland, 1871, 424. 



[Uria] lachrymans Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 130. 



Uria lacrymans Valenciennes, in Choria, Voy. Pittor., 1822, Al'jout., 27, pi. 23 

 (Newfoundland; ex La Pylaie, manuscript). — Werner, Atlas, PalmipMes, 

 1828, pi. 98.— Gould, Birds Eur., v, 1837, pi. 397 and text.— Yarrell, Brit. 

 Birds, i, 1843, preface, p. xi; iii, 1843, 351. — Macgillivray, Brit. Birds, v, 

 1852, 326.— Watters, Nat. Hist. Birds Ireland, 1853, 229. 



Uria troile lacrymans Schalow, Vogel der Arktis, 1904, 127 (synonymy, range, 

 etc.). 



Uria lacrimalis "Kretschmar" Schinz, Thierreich, iv, 1825, 532. 



Uria leticopsis Brehm, Beitr. Vogelk., iii, 1823, 880 (Iceland); Isis, 1826, 888; 

 Handb. Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 982. 



Uria troile (not Colymbus troille Linnaeus) Bonapakte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1828 

 ("Synopsis"), 424. — Audubon, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 142, pi. 218; Synopsis, 

 1839, 350; Birds Am., 8vo ed., vii, 1844, 267, pi. 473.— Gould, Birds Great 

 Brit., v., 1873, pi. 48, rear fig., and text, part. — Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, Water Birds N. Am., ii, 1884, 477, part. 



U[ria\ troile Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds. 1887, 18, part. 



[Lomvia] troile Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 346, part. 



[Uria troile] Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 787, part (based on Colymbus minor 

 Gmelin, Uria svarbag and U. ringvia Briinnich; etc.). 



(?) [ Uria troile] y Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 797 (based on Uria alga Brunnich) . 



URIA TROILLE TROILLE (Linnaeus). 



MURRE. 



Adults in breeding jilumage (sexes alike). — Head and neck plain 

 olive-brown or sepia to nearly clove-brown, little if any darker on 

 pileum and hindneck, but sometimes slightly more grayish on crown; 

 rest of upper parts plain dark grayish brown (nearest chsetura drab 

 or fuscous, but more grayish than the latter), the secondaries nar- 

 rowly but sharply tipped with white; under parts, including median 

 portion of lower foreneck, white, immaculate except on outer portion 

 of sides and flanks, where broadly streaked with grayish brown; 

 bill black; inside of mouth yellow; iris dark brown; legs and feet 

 dull black or dusky. 



^Yinter plumage. — Whole under side of head, foreneck, malar, 

 suborbital, and auricular regions, and stripe on each side of occiput 

 white, the latero-occipital area separated from the white below it, 

 except posteriorly, by a postocular stripe of dark smoky brown, 

 extending along upper edge of auriculars; bill and feet more brownish. 



Young. — Similar to winter adults but without white on sides of 

 occiput, and white' of foreneck faintly mottled with grayish brown 

 or dusky; bill smaller. 



Downy young. — Head and neck sooty black, finely streaked with 

 dull grayish white; upper parts plain deep grayish brown or brownish 

 gray, the sides and flanks similar but paler; chest, breast, abdomen, 

 and anal region immaculate white. 

 40017— 19— Bull. 50, pt 8 47 



