5. brachtrhamphus. 591 



[part]; Dall Sf Bann. Tr. Chicaf/o Acad. i. p. 309 (1869) [Sitka]; 



Coues, Keij N. Am. B. p. 344 (1872) ; Barrows, P. Bost. Soc. xix. 



p. 157 (1877); Nelson, Cruise Corwin, p. 116 (1883) ; Hartl. J.f. O. 



1883, p. 285 [Alaska]; Coues, Key N. Am. B. 2nd ed. p. 812 



(1884). 

 Brachyrliamphus wrangelii, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 644 (1848) ; 



Coues, Pr. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 63 ; Dall ^- Bann. Tr. Chicago 



Acad. i. p. 310 (1869) [Sitka]. 

 Anobaptou marmorata, Licht. Nomencl. A v. Mus. Berol. p. 105 



(1854). 

 Brachyrlaamphus wrangelli, Dall, Avif. Aleut, p. 11 (1873); id. 



P. Calif. Acad. v. p. 35 (1873) [Aleutian Is.]. 



Adult in hreeding-plumage. General colour above black, barred 

 and mottled with rufous chestnut, all the feathers, except the wing- 

 coverts, being black tipped with rufous chestnut ; the scapulars and 

 inner flank-feathers rather more coarsely marked than the rest of 

 the upper parts, the former making two rather distinct bands on 

 the back ; wing-coverts black, fringed with greyish at the extremity ; 

 chin, sides of the head next the throat, and rest of underparts white, 

 heavily mottled (tipped) with smoky-brown ; under wing-coverts 

 deep smoky-brown tinged with grey ; quills black, paler on the 

 inner webs ; tail black, composed of 14 feathers. Total length 

 about 9'5 inches, culmen from feathers on forehead to tip 0"6.5-0'7, 

 from gape to tip l-25-l'35, greatest depth of both mandibles at 

 base 0-22, wing 5-5'2, tail 1'25-1'4, tarsus 0'65, middle toe and 

 claw 1-1 -1-2. 



Adult in non-hreeding plumage. General colour above blackish 

 grey, all the feathers, except the crown and wing-coverts which 

 are nearly uniform, being brownish black tipped ■with grey. A 

 white collar round the back of the neck almost completely dividing 

 the crown from the nape ; most of the side- and flank-feathers with 

 the inner web smokj--grej' ; chin, lores, and sides of the head next 

 the throat, as well as the rest of the underparts, pure white ; under 

 wing-coverts smokj'-grey ; scapulars mostly white. Feathering on 

 the lower mandible extending beyond a vertical line drawn from the 

 anterior border of the nostril. 



Immature. Hesemblcs the adult in winter, but the upper parts 

 lack the dark-grey tips to the feathers, and the white feathers of 

 the chin, throat, and underparts are narrowlj' fringed with smokj-- 

 brown. 



Hah. Pacific coast of North America and South California to 

 Alaska. 



a~d. d 2 'id. sk. Unalashka I., Alaska, May& Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 June (JS. TV. Nelso7i). 



e. Ad.sk. Itiuliuk, Unalashka, Nov.21 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



iW.H.Dall). 



f. $ ad. sk. Kodiak I., Alaska, Mar. 2, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{F. Bischoff). 

 g-i. Ad. et juv. N.W. coast of America. Purchased. 



sk. 

 k-7i. Ad. et juv. Vancouver I. {J. K. Lord). N. American Boundary 



sk. Comm. [P.]. 



