590 ALC^. 



5. BIIA.CHYRHAMPHUS. 



Type. 



Brachyraiuplius, Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. ii. 



p. 3i6 (1837) B. marmoratus. 



Apobapton, Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. ii. p. 346 



(1837) B. marmoratus. 



Anobapton, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 774 (1856) B. marmoratus. 



Bill elongate and moderately compressed ; culmen more or less 

 curved downward towards the tip. Inter-ramal feathering extends 

 slightly beyond a vertical line drawn from the anterior border of 

 the nasal opening, which is exposed and roiinded. Tail composed 

 of 14 feathers. Metatarsus shorter than the middle toe and claw. 

 Size small. 



Range. Coasts and islands of the North Pacific and Bering Sea. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Culmen from feathers on forehead to tip 0-65- 



0-95 inch ; outer tail-feathers brownish black. 



a. Upper parts barred with rufous chestnut 



(breeding-plumage) : culmen 0'65-0'7 .... marmoratus, p. 590. 



b. Upper parts barred with duU tawny and buff 



(breeding-plumage); culmen 0'8-095. . . . ^Je>Y//.c, p. 592. 



B. Culmen from feathers on forehead to tip 04 ; 



outer tail-feathers white brevirostris, p. 593. 



1. Brachyrhamphus marmoratus. 



Marbled Guillemot, Pennant, Arct. Zool. ii. p. 517, pi. xxii. (1785) 



[W. coast of N. Amei-ica] ; Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. ii. p. 336, pi. xcvi. 



(1785) ; id. Gen. Hist. x. p. 83, pi. 171 (1824). 

 Colymbus marmoratus, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 583 (1788). 

 Uria marmorata, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 799 (1790) ; Bonnat. Tabl. 



Eneycl. Meth. i. p. 37, pi. ix. fig. 4 (1790) ; Sfeph. in Shaiv's Gen, 



Zool. xii. pt. ii. p. 249 (1824) ; Kuit. Man. Orn. p. 525 (1834) ; 



Kittl. Denkw. Reise. i. p. 244 (1858) [Sitka]. 

 Brachyramphus marmoratus, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. ii. 



p. 346 (1837) ; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 915 (1858) ; Cooper Sf SucM. 



N. H. Wash. Terr. p. 286 (1860) ; Brandt, MUang. Biol. vii. p. 208 



(1869) ; G. R. Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 100 (1871) ; Peh. Ibis, 1873, 



p. 46 ; Bean, P. U.S. Nat. Mm. v. p. 171 (1882) [Sitka] : Hartl. 



J.f. 0. 1883, p. 285; Baird, Brew. |- Ridr/to. Water-B. N. Amer. 



ii. p. 499 (1884) ; A. 0. U. Check-l. p. 80 (1886) ; Stejn. Zeit. ges. 



Orn. iii. p. 218 (1886) ; Nelson, Rep. N. H. Alaska, p. 44 (188*7) ; 



Ridgw. Man.N. Am. B. p. 15 (1887); Loomis, P. Calif. Acad. (2) 



vi. p. 19 (1896) [California] ; Cantwell, Auk, xv. p. 49 (1898) 



[e^g]; Grinnell, Auk, XV. Yi. 'i24 (1898). 

 Brachyramphus wrangelii, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. ii. p. 346 



(1837) [Aleutian Is. : winter plumage] ; Baird, B. N. Amer. ^p. 917 



(1858). 

 Uria townsendi, Aud. Orn. Biogr. v. p. 251, pi. ccccxxix. (18.39) 



[mouth of Columbia E..]; id. B. Amer. vii. p. 278, pi. cccclxxv. 



(1844) ; G. R. Gray, List of B. pt. iii. p. 157 (1844). 

 Brachyrhamphus marmoratus, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 644 (1848) ; 



Reichenb. Natatores, pi. vi. tigs. 2715-20 (1850) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 



1859, p. 237 [Vancouver Is.] ; Coues, P. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. CI 



