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Dyhowski ^ Tacz. Ball. Soc. Z. Fr. ix. p 147 (1884) ; Sennrtf, 

 Auk, i. p. 9'.) (1884) [Lake Koslikonong, Wisconsin]; Turner, 

 Auk, ii. p. 159 (188o) [Nearer Is., Alaska]; Nelson, Rep. N. H. 

 Alaska, p. 43 (1887). 

 Alca umisuzLime, Rivkett, Ihis, 1894, p. 225 TFoochow], 189o, 

 p. 168. 



Adah in hreed'nyj -plumage . General colour above dark slate ; 

 the head and neck mostly deep black, of a more sooty tint on the 

 sides of the head, chin, throat, and fore-neck ; on each side of the 

 head a band composed of narrow wliite feathers commencing above 

 fclie eye and, in some examples, more or less confluent with its 

 fellow on the lower part of the occiput; the black on the fore-neck 

 separated from the hind-neck by a wide white patch extending 

 to the ear-coverts ; sides of the chest, sides and flanks black, 

 the former streaked with white ; remainder of the underparts 

 as well as the under wing-coverts pure white ; quills blackish, 

 becoming white towards the base of the inner web ; tail black, 

 composed of 14 feathers. " Iris dark brown ; bill whitish-grey, 

 brownish-black along the culmen and towards the base ; feet bluish- 

 white, brownish-black at the joints ; webs sooty-black, except the 

 portion next the toes which is light blue ; back of the metatarsus 

 and soles of feet sooty-black" [P. A. Hoist). Total length al)out 

 IU'5 inches, culmen from feathers on forehead to tip U'55-0-(), 

 from gape to tip 1'1-1'2.5, greatest depth of both mandibles at base 

 0-28-0-3, wing 5-1-5-2, tail l-25-l'4o, tarsus 105, middle toe and 

 claw 1-15-1"25. 



Adult in noa-hreedinj pUima<je. Similar to the above, but the 

 whole of the fore-neck and throat white ; the chin and sometimes 

 the upper throat dark grey ; the white stripes on the sides of the 

 occiput absent ; and the feathers of the sides and flanks mostly 

 white with the inner webs grey. From the following species it 

 may be distinguished by having the ear-coverts smoky-black. 



Huh. Coasts of the North Pacific : from Japan, the Kurile Islands, 

 Sea of Okhotsk, and Ivamschatka to the Commander Group and 

 across Bering Sea to Alaska. 



a. Ad. sk. Hamilton I., South Corea, A. G. Wilday, Esq. 



summer. [P-]- 



b. d" ad. sk. Baracouta Harbour, E. Siberia, Howard Saunders, 



Sept. (Ct. Sterens). Esq. [P.]^. 



c. d. ^ 2 ^d' sk. Tsu-shima, Japan, Mai'. 19 Seebohm Coll. 



(P. A. Hnht). 



e. S ad.sk. Nagasaki, Feb. 24 (C. Collint/- Seebohm Coll. 



icood). 



f, g. S ad. sk. Nagasaki, winter (F. R.). F. Ringer, Esq. [P.]. 

 A.Ad. sk. Yokohama, winter. II. Prver, Esq. [C.]. 

 i-n. Ad. sk. Yokohama, sjirinu- and summer Seebohm Coll. 



(H. Fryer). 

 0. Ad. sk. Hakodadi', Jan. 28 (//. Tweeddale Coll. 



Whitehi). 

 p. $ ad. sk. Hakodadi, Ajml (7'. /j/«A;/.'.<an). Seebohm Coll. 



f/-t. d ad. sk. Kurile Is., .June {O. .)>iiow). Seeboluu Coll. 



et St. 



