3. ALLE. 669 



3. ALLE. 



Type. 



Alle, Link, Bcschr. Nat. Saniinl. Univ. Rostock, i. p. 17 



(1806) A. alle. 



Merguliis, Vieillot [ex Bay, Syn. Av. p. 125 (1713j], Analyse, 



p. 67 (1816) A. aUe. 



Arctica, G. R. Gray [e.v Moehring, Av. Gen. p. 65 (1752)], 



List B. pt. iii. p. 157 (1844) A. alle. 



Bill short and stout ; culmen rather strongly curved downward ; 

 the depth of the upper mandible at the base considerably less than 

 the breadth. Inter-ramal feathering extending far beyond a vertical 

 line drawn from the anterior border of the nasal opening, which 

 is exposed and covered anteriorly by a scale. Tail composed of 

 12 feathers. Metatarsus shorter than the middle too and claw. 

 Size small. 



Range. Arctic Ocean, ranging north to Franz Josef Land, east- 

 wards to Novaya Zemlya, westwards to Greenland and the west 

 of Baffin's Bay, and south in winter to the North Sea and Atlantic 

 as far south as the Azores and Canary' Islands. 



1. AUe aUe. 



Small Black and White Diver, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. ii. pi. 91 

 (1747). 



Le petit Guillemot, Brisson, Orn. vi. p. 73 (1760) ; B'Aubent, PL 

 Enl. X. pi. 50 [no. 917] ; Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. ix. p. 354 (1783). 



Alca alle, Limi. S. N. i. p. 211 (1766) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 795 

 (1790) ; Meyer Sf Wolf, Taschenb. der Deutschl. p. 443 (1810) ; 

 Wilson, Amer. Orn. ix. p. !)4, pi. Ixxiv. fig. 5 (1814); Gouhl, B. 

 Eur. V. pl. 402 (1837) ; Schl. Mus. Pai/s-Bas, vi. Urinat. p. 20 

 (1867) ; Hartiny, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 120 [Wolsteuholm Sound] ; 

 Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 380 (1885). 



Little Auk, Pennant, Brit. Zool. ii. p. 517, pl. Ixxxii. fig. 1 (1776) ; 

 id. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 512 (1785) ; Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. i. p. 327 

 (1785) ; id. Gen. Hist. x. p. 70 (1824) ; Selby, HI. Brit. Orn. ii. 

 pl. Ixxxi. (1834) ; Yarre/l, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 358 (1843). 



Alca alee {sic), Gmel. S. N i. pt. ii. p. 554 (1788). 



Uria grylle, Bonnat. (nee Linn.) Tall. Encycl. Mith. i. p. 36, pl. ix. 

 fig. '5 (1790). 



Alle nigricans, Link, Beschr. Nat. Samml. Univ. Rostock, i. p. 17 

 (1806) ; Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. C. iv. p. 244 (1879) ; Merriam, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. C. vii. p. 241 (1882) [Canada]: Stearns S; Coues, 

 N. Enyl. B..life, ii. p. 395 (1883); Baird, Brew. Sf Ridgw. Water- 

 B. N.' Amer. ii. p. 463 (1884) ; Coues, Keif N. A'iner. B. 2nd ed. 

 p. 810 (1884) ; Butcher, Auk, i. p. 35 (1884) [Long I., N.Y.]. 



Uria alle, Pallas, Zooqr. Rosso-As. ii. p. 369 (1811) ; Temm. Man. 

 d'Orn. p. 611 (1815) ; id. Man. d'Om. ed. 2. pt. ii. p. 928 (1820), 

 pt. iv. p. 578 (1840) ; Meyer, Appendix to Meyer Si- Wulf,Tasche7ib. 

 der Deutschl. p. 178 (1822) ; Werner, All. Ois. (fEur. pl. 99 

 (1828) ; Swaijis. ^- Richardson, Faun. Bor.-Amer. ii. p. 479 (1831) 

 [Melville I.] ; Nutt. Man. Orn. p. 531 (1834) ; Aud. Orn. Biogr. 

 iv. p. 304, pl. cccx.xxix. (1838). 



Mergulus melanoleuco.«, Leach, Syst. Cat. p. 42 (1810) ; Steph. in 

 Shaw's Gen. Zool. .\iii. pt. i. p. 34 (1826) ; Brandt, Bull. Acad. 



