750 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female. — Wing, 127; tail, 29; exposed culmen, 10.5; tarsus, 

 15.5; middle toe, 23.'^ 



Coasts and islands of Alaska*, from Sitka, and Glacier Bay to 

 Cook Inlet (off Homer, Aug. 3) and Unalaska Island; coast of north- 

 eastern Siberia (westward along Arctic coast to Cape Yakan) and 

 Kamchatka (Petropaulski), southward in winter to northern Japan 

 (Hakodate). 



Uriabrevirostris Vigors, Zool. Journ., iv, 1828, 357 (''San Bias, Mexico," i. e., 

 Tepic^; type now in coll. Brit. Mu3.); Zool. Voy. 'Blossom,' Birds, 1839, 32. 



Brachyramphus brevirostris Stejneger, Zeitschr. ges. Orn., iii, 1886, 211 (crit.); 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxi, 1898, 273 (Kuril Islands).— Chapman, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., XX, 1904, 399 (Cook Inlet, off Homer, Alaska, Aug. 3). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 357; Check List, 

 3d ed., 1910, p. 29.— Thayer and Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, v, 

 1914, 8 (Arctic coast e. Siberia, west to Cape Yakan). 



B [rachyramphus] brevirostris Ridgv/ay, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 15. 



Brachyrhamphus brevirostris Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Bii-ds N. Am., 

 ii, 1884, 499, footnote. ^ — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Ave?, 

 iii, 1903, 44G ("San Bias, Tepic").— Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvi. 

 1898, 593 ("San Bias, Tepic;" Kamchatka). 



Alca brevirostris Seebohm, Birds Japanese Emp., 1890, 279. 



Brachyramphus hittUtzii Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb., ii, 1837, 346 (Petro- 

 paulski, Kamchatka); Melang. Biol., vii, 1869, 215 (Petropaulski). — Cassin, 

 in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 917. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 

 way, Water Birds N."Am., ii, 1884, 501. — Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 no. 29, 1885, 314 (Petropaulski, Kamchatka). 



Brachyramphus kittlitzi Taczanowski, Journ. fiir Orn., 1876, 203 (Usuri, e. 

 Siberia). — Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, 210 (Hakodate, Japan). — 

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

 no. 24.— Turner, Contr. N. H. Alaska, 1886, 120, pi. 2 (Unalaska; winter 

 plumage described and figured). — Nelson, Rep. N. H. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 

 44, pi. 1 (Unalaska Harbor; summer plumage described and figured). 



B[rachyramphus] kittlitzi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 15. 



B[rachyrhamphus] hittUtzii Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1848, 644. 



Brachyrhamphus kittlitzii Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 735. — Coues, 

 Check List, 1873, no. 630.— Barrows, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 159 

 (monogr.). 



[Brachyrhamphus] kittlitzi Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 344. 



Brachyrhamphus kittlitzi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 211 (Cat. 

 N. Am. Birds, no. 756); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 756.— Coues, Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 867. Nelson, Cruise 'Corwin' in 1881 (1883), 117 

 (Unalaska).— Palmen, 'Vega'-Exped., 1887, 393 (Sitka, Alaska; Pittlekaj, 

 e. Siberia; crit.). 



Uria antiqua (not Alca antiqua Gmelin) Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 100, pi. 

 402, fig. 2; Birds Am., 8^" ed., vii, 1844, 263, part, pi. 470, fig. 2 (supposed 

 young). 



[Brachyrhamphus] antiquus Reichenbach, Natatores, 1850, pi. 6, fig. 2713. 



o One specimen, from Alaska. 



^ Almost certainly an error; probably some part of northern Pacific Ocean. 



