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 IJria troile californica Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mug., no. 29, 1885, 20 (Com- 

 mander Islands); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxi, 1898, 271 (Kuril Islands). — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 and 2d ed., 1895, 

 no. 30a. — Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 88 (Ventura Co., California). — Turner, 

 Contr. N. H. Alaska, 1886, 122 (north to St. Matthew Island; not at St. 

 Michaels).— Nel.son, Pep. N. H. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 45 (Sitka; Kodiak; 

 Aleutian Islands; Pribylof Islands; Herald Island; Wrangell Island). — 

 Bryant (W. E.), Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 2d ser., i, 1888, 31 (Farallon Islands, 

 breeding; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Taczanowski, Mem. Ac. St. 

 Petersb., xxxix, 1893, 1219 (e. Siberia).— Looms, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 2d 

 ser., vi, 1896, 20 (coast California). — Grinnell (J.), Auk, xv, 1898, 125 

 (Sitka).— Seale, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1898, 129 (near Aleutian Is- 

 lands).— Palmer (W.), Avif. Pribilof Islands, 1899, 389 (breeding; habits, 

 etc.).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xvi, 1902, 232 (Homer, Cook Inlet, 

 Alaska; breeding at Kodiak Island and Kachemak Bay). — Ray, Auk, xxi, 

 1904, 431 (Farallon Islands; habits, etc.).— Jones, Wilson Bull., xxi, 1909, 

 9, figs. (1), 7, 8, 9 (Carroll Inlet, Washington, breeding; habits, etc.). — 

 Clark (A. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxviii, 1910, 33 (San Francisco. 

 California, to Aleutian Islands; Commander Islands). 

 Uria troille californica American Ornithologists' Union, Check List. 3d ed., 

 1910, p. 31.— Grinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avif., no. 11, 1915, 19 (breeding 

 on Farallon and San Miguel islands. Point Eeyes, etc.). 

 Alca troile californica Seebohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii, 1885, 389. 



URIA LOMVIA LOMVIA (Linnaeus). 



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BRtJNNICH'S MUKRE. 



Adults in breeding 'plumage (sexes alike) . — Sides of head and neck, 

 chin, throat, and foreneck, uniform clove brown, passmg into sooty 

 slate-blackish on pileum and hindneck; upper parts plain sooty 

 slate-blackish (similar to but rather more grayish than color of 

 hindneck and pileum), the secondaries narrowly but sharply tipped 

 with white; under parts, including median portion of lower foreneck, 

 immaculate white, the exterior feathers of sides and flanks broadly 

 edged on outer webs with sooty blackish; bill black, the basal half 

 (approximately) of maxillary tomium bluish gray, sometimes con- 

 spicuously light-colored; iris dark brown; legs and feet dusky brown 

 (said to be tinged with reddish in life). 



Winter plumage. — Whole throat, foreneck, malar, subocular, 

 and auricular regions, and sides of occiput white, the last separated 

 (except posteriorly) by a narrow blackish postocular stripe; white 

 of latero-occipital area and lower part of foreneck faintly mottled 

 transversely with dusky; otherwise as in summer. 



Yo^<n(7.— Similar to winter adults, but without white on sides of 

 occiput and with bill smaller. 



Downy young. — Above dusky grayish brown or sooty, the head 

 and neck finely streaked with pale huffy grayish; throat, foreneck, 

 sides, and posterior under parts pale brownish gray, the chest, 

 breast, and abdomen dull white. 



