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Brachyramphus hypoleucus Elliot, lUustr. New and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, pt. 8, 

 1867, (vol. ii), text to pi. 72. — ^Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds 

 N. Am., ii, 1884, 502. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 

 1886, and 2d ed., 1895, no. 25; 3d ed., 1910, p. 30.— Bryant (W. E.), Proc. 

 Calif. Ac. Sci., 2d ser., ii, 1889, 250 (Cape region, Lower California; Santa 

 Barbara Islands, California, breeding; San Diego, California). — Grinnell 

 (J.), Pub. 1, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1897, 23 (between San Pedro and Santa 

 Catalina Island, and near Santa Barbara, California); Pub. 2, 1898, 6 (Santa 

 Barbara Island, May 13); Pacific Coast Avif., no. 11, 1915, 19 (Santa Barbara 

 Islands, resident; occasional north to Monterey Bay). — Mailliard, Auk, xv, 



1898, 197 (Monterey Bay, Dec, Jan.). — Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 xli, no. 1, 1902, 15 (Lower California range). — Beck, Condor, ix, 1917, 58 

 (Monterey Bay, Nov.-Feb.); Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 4th ser., iii, 1910, 60 

 (Monterey Bay, Sept. 2- Apr. 25; July 29, several pairs; crit.). — Linton, Con- 

 dor, X, 1908, 125 (Santa Cruz Island, California).— Lamb, Condor, x, 1908, 

 819 (Los Coronados Islands, Lower California, breeding; nesting habits). — 

 Wright, Condor, xi, 1909, 98 (IjOs Coronados Islands, breeding). 



B[rackyram,phus] hypoleucus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 15. 



Micruria hypoleuca Grant (0), Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx\'i, 1898, 594 (San Benito 



Island, Lower California). — Thayer and Bangs, Condor, x, 1908, 104 



(Guadalupe Island, Lower California). 

 [Micruria] hypoleuca Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 131. 

 M[ia-uria] hypoleuca Anthony, Auk, xvii, 1900, 168, in text (crit.). 

 Endomychura hypoleuca Oberholser, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., June 2, 1899, 201. 

 [Endoinychura] hypoleuca Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 



1899, 52. 



[Synthliborhamphus] wurmizusume (not Una ivumizusume Temminck!) Coues, 

 Key N. A.m. Birds, 1872, 344, part (supposed young or winter adult!). 



ENDOMYCHURA CRAVERI (Salvadori). 



CRAVERI'S MURRELET. 



Similar to E. hypoleuca but with under wing-coverts mostly 

 brownish gray; inner webs of all the primaries light grayish brown, 

 without any well-defined whitish area; color of upper parts more 

 brownish or sooty; dusky feathers of sides and flanks without distinct 

 (if any) paler tips, and coloration of downy young very different.'^ 



Adults in summer and winter. — Upper parts, including whole of 

 loral and orbital regions and upper portion of auricular region plain 

 blackish slate; a whitish bar or crescentric mark beneath lower 

 eyelid and a less distinct one immediately above upper eyelid; 

 under parts, except sides and flanks, immaculate white; sides and 

 flanks plain dull slate color or brownish slate; under wing-coverts 

 brownish slate-gray, some of the larger ones and tips of some of the 

 smaller coverts white or grayish white; inner webs of primaries 

 grayish white only toward base; bill black; iris dark brown; legs and 

 feet pale brownish (probably bluish in life). 



a For an excellent statement of the various differences between the two species see 

 Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, no. 1, 1902 (Birds of the Cape Region of Lower 

 California), pp. 16-19. 



40017— 19— Bull. 50, pt 8 40 



