4. URTA. 589 



(1884) ; id. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 22 (188-')) [Commander 

 Is.]; id. P. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 118 (1887) [Commander Is]; 

 Ridgw. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 17 (1887 ) ; Gigl. ^ Salmd. P. Z. S. 

 1887, p. 593 [Corea] ; Tacz. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. xxxix. p. 1224 . 

 (1893) [P:. Siberia]. 



Uria carbo, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. ii. p. 346 (1837) ; G. R. 

 Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 645 (1848) ; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 71 (1851); 

 Middend. Sibir. Reise, ii. pt. ii. p. 239, pi. xxiii. fig. 6 (1851) ; Baird, 

 B. N. Amer. p. 913, pi. xcvii. (1858) ; Schrenck, Reis. Aniur-l. i. 

 p. 496, pi. xvi. fig. 1 [egg] (1859) ; Cassin, P. Ac. Philad. 1862, 

 p. 323 [coast of Japan] ; Cones, P. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 73 ; Brandt, 

 Melang. Biol. vii. p. 206 (1869) ; G. R. Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. 

 p. 101 (1871) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 345 (1872) ; Sioinhoe, 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 458 [Hakodadi] ; Tacz. J.f. 0. 1876, p. 203 [Ussuri] ; 

 id. Bull. Sac. Z. Fr. ii. p. 51 (1877) [Abrek Bay] ; Blakist. Sf 

 Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 211 [Yezo]; iid. Tr. As. Soc. Jap. viii. p. 180 

 (1880), x. p. 90 (1882) ; Coues, Key N. Atner. B. 2nd ed. p. 815 

 (1884). ^ 



Alca carbo, ScM. Mus. Pays-Bos, vi. Urinat. p. 17 (1867) ; Seebokm, 

 B. Japan, -p. 274 (1890). 



Adult in hreeding-plumage. Bill long and stout, much more 

 robust than in U. cohimba. General colour deep slaty-black, 

 somewhat paler on the underparts, and inclining to brown on 

 the shoulders, under wing-coverts, and axillaries ; orbital region 

 u'hite, extended posteriorly toward the ear-coverts ; feathers above 

 the nasal opening and on the chin and throat inclining to 

 whitish. Tail composed of 14 feathers. Total length about 14-5 

 inches, culmen from feathers on forehead to tip 1-65, from gape to 

 tip 2-15-2-2, greatest depth of both mandibles at base 0-5, wing 

 7-7-6, tail 1-85-2-1, tarsus 1-4-1 -5, middle toe and claw 1-9-2-1. 



Adult in non-hreeding plumage. Chin, throat, fore-neck, and 

 underparts white, inner webs of the flank-feathers grey. 



Immature (February). Resembles the adult in winter plumage, 

 but the fore-neck is greyish and the feathers of the sides, flanks, 

 and belly are mostly fringed at the extremity with dark brown. 



Quite yowng bird (August). Has the upper parts as in the adult, 

 the white ring round the eye nearly obsolete, the fore-neck, chest, 

 sides, and flanks dark smoky-black, and the rest of the underparts 

 white, widely fringed with brownish-black. 



Hah. Coasts of North-east Asia, from North Japan to the Kurile 

 Islands and Sea of Ochotsk ; eastwards to the Commander Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Japan. Purchased. 



b,c. cJ 5 ^"i- sk. Hakodadi, Yezo, Japan, March, Seebohm Coll. 

 April (jT. Henson). 



d. Ad. sk. Hakodadi, Jan. (H. Whitely). Tweeddale Coll. 



e. c? ad. sk. Hakodadi, May 31(7". jBMjstoi). Seebohm Coll. 



/. 2 imm. sk. Hakodadi, Aug. Capt. T. Blakiston 



[P.]. 

 g. Imm. sk. Uraga, Hondo, Japan, Feb. 27 Seebohm Coll. 



(O. Snoio). 



