5. UR:\.CUYRaAMl'IHJ3. 593 



cxtreniit}' witli whitish butf, ami some of the feathers of the breast 

 i\n(l belly are fringed with smoky-brown ; the bill is much shorter 

 than in the adult ;ind measures 0-65 inch. 



Huh. Coasts of Xorth-east Asia from Japan to the Kui'ilo Islands, 

 Kamschatka, and the Sea of Ochotsk. 



a. Imm. sk. [Japan.] Capt. Kcdlett & Lieut. 



^^'ood \v.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Japan, autumn. II. Whitely [0.]. 



c. S ad. sk. Hakodrtdi, Japan, Mar. 23 Sjebolnu Coll. 



( Hens<in). 



d-f. 6 ? ad. sk. Ilakndadi, May & Nov. {T. Seibohm Coll. 



er. (5 ad. st. Illnkidon). 



(J. 5 ad. sk. Kurile Islands (O. Snow). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Brachyrhamphns hrevirostris. 



Uria brevirostris, Viyors, Zool. Journ. iv. p. 3o7 (1828) [San Bla.t, 

 ^Ipxieo] : id. Zool. Voy. Blossmn, liirds, p. 32 (18-31)). 



Ciacbvram]ihus luttlitzii, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersh. ii. p 34(3 

 (1837) [Kam.-chatka] ; Baird, B. iS". ^w(e/-. p. 917 (1858) ; Brandt, 

 Milami. Biol. vii. p. 213 (1869); Tacz. J. f. O. 187(3, p. 203 

 [U.^suri]; id. Bull. Soc. Z. Fr. ii. p. 50 (1879) [Abrek Bay] ; 

 Baird. Brew. ^- liidyw. Wnter-B. N. Am. ii. p. 501 (1884) ; St'ejn. 

 Orn. E.cidor. Kamtsch. p. 314 (1885); id. Bull. U.S. Nat. AJtis. 

 xxix. p. 314 (1885) ; A. O. U. (7iec/:-l.]).8l (1886) ; Nelwn, Rep. 

 K. H. Aln.'.-ka, p. 44, pi. i. (1887) ; Ridyw. Man. N. Am. B.^. 15 

 (1887); Tmz. Mem. Acad. St. Fetersb. x.\xix. p. 1213 (1893) 

 [E. Siberia]. 



Uria antiqua, Aud. (nee Gmel.) Orn. Bioyr. v. pi. ci'ccii. fig. 2 (1839) ; 

 id. B. Anier. vii. p. 263, pi. cccclxx. fig. 2 (1844). 



Brac-hyrliampbus kittlilzii, G. R. Gray. Gen. B. iii. p. 644 (1848); 

 Ci.ues, Key N. Am. I-', p. 344 (1872); Nelson, Cruise Corivi/i, 

 p.ll7(1883); Coue.'^, Key N.Am. 5. 2nd ed. p. 813 (1884) ; Turner, 

 Contr. N. Hist. Alaska, p. 120, pi. ii. (1886); Fabnen, Veyu- 

 Kcped. Vetensk. lakttag. v. p. 393 (1887). 



13racli\rhau;]ibus antiquus, Reichenh. [nee Gmel) A'utatorcs, pi. \i. 

 fig. 2713 (1850). 



ISrachyrampbus brevirostris, Stejn. Zeit yes. Orn. iii. p. 211 (1886) ; 

 liidyw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 15 (1887). 



Alca brevirostris, Seebuhm, B. Japan, p. 279 (1890). 



Adult in brei'din(/-phimar/e. General colour above grey mottled 

 with buff; wing-coverts uniform dark smoky-brown; cliin, throat, 

 sides of the head, and chest, as well as the sides and flanks, mottleil 

 with white, buff and black, the bases of the feathers being white, the 

 subterminal portion buff, and the terminal bar black ; rest of the 

 underparts mostly white, a few of the feathers with a subterminal 

 marking of smoky-brown ; under wing-coverts dark umber-brown 

 with a blight ochreous tinge ; ipiills browni.sh-black, paler on the 

 iiiucr web ; middle pair of tail-feathers brownish-black, tipptd 

 with white, the remaining pairs -w bite, but the secini, third, and 

 fourth ])airs have the outer web partially brownish-black. Tail 

 CI mposed of 14 feathers. The inter-ramal feathering extends to a 

 vrtical line drawn from the anterior margin of the nostril. Total 



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