BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult male.— Wmg, 144.5-152 (148); tail, 39-42 (40.7); exposed 

 culmen, 14.5-16.5 (15.2); greatest depth of bill, 13-15.5 (14.4); 

 tarsus, 26.5-31 (29.2); middle toe, 32-37.5 (35.4).* 



Adult female.— Wing, 140.5-152 (145.8); tail, 39-43 (40.9); greatest 

 depth of bill, 13-15.5 (14.2); tarsus, 28-30 (28.8); middle toe, 32.5- 

 36 (34.5). « 



Coasts and islands of Bering Sea and contiguous portions of 

 northern Pacific Ocean; breeding from northeastern coast of Siberia 

 and northwestern Alaska (mcluding Diomede, St. Lawrence, Hall, 

 St. Matthew, Pribilof, Walrus, and Otter islands, Bering Sea) south- 

 ward to Kuril, Commander, Aleutian, and Shumagin islands; south- 

 ward in winter as far as Monterey Bay, California, northern Japan, 

 and Okotsk Sea; accidental in Sweden. 



Alca psittacula Pallas, Spicil. Zool., i, fasc. v, 1769, 13, pi. 2, figs. 4-6 (Kamchat- 

 ka).— Bonnaterre, Tabl. Enc. M^th., i, 1790, 33, pi. 11, fig. 2.— Lichten- 

 STEiN, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 89, in text. 



[Alca] psittacula Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 553. — Latham, Index Orn., 

 ii, 1790, 794. 



Simorhynchus psittaculus Merrem, in Ersch u. Gruber's Encycl., ii, 1819, 407. — 

 ScHLEGEL, Mus. Pays-Bas, vi, no. 33 (Urinatores), 1867, 24. — Coues, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 36 (monogr.); Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 858. 



[Simorhynchus] psittaculus Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 97, no. 10786. — D'Hamon- 

 viLLE, Cat. Ois. Eur., 1876, 72 (Sweden). 



S[imorhynchus] psittaculus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 806. 



Phaleris psittacula Temminck, Man. d' Orn., 2d ed., pt. ii, 1820, 929. — Stephens, 

 Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. 1, 1826, 44. — Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 

 1828 ("Synopsis"), 426; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 66.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. 

 U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 534.— Fitzinger, Atl. Nat. Vog., 1864, 

 fig. 343. — ^Wahlgren, Jagaref. Tidskr., 1867, 108 (Sweden). — Harting, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 121 (Bering Sraits).— Coues, Check List, 1873, 

 no. 621; in Elliott's Affairs in Alaska, 1875, 204.— Vian, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, i, 1876, 1, pi. 1 (Sweden). — Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 ii, 1877, 52; viii, 1888, 346 (Kamchatka); Mem. Ac. St.-Petersb., xxxix, 1884, 

 1227 (e. Siberia).— Barrows, Proc. Bost. Soc. N.H., xix, 1877, 155 (monogr.).— 

 RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 211 (Cat. N. Am. Biids, no. 

 747); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 747. — Elliott, Monogr. Pribylov Group, 



a Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Eight adult males from Alaska 



Two adult males from Bering Island, Kamchatka 



FEMALES. 



Nine adult females from Alaska 



One adult female from Bering Island 



35.4 

 35.7 



34.7 

 33 



