598 ALC^. 



u. Ad. sk. Kamscliatka, summer. Frankfort Museum 



[E]. 

 V. 2 ad. sk. Bering I., Commander Group, G. E. II. Ban-ett- 



July 3. Hamilton, Eaq. 



w. Ad.sk. N.W. coast of America, summer. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



,v. cf ad. sk. Kvska Harbour, July 3 ( W. H. Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



2. Synthliborhamphus wumizusume. 



Uria -wumizusume, Temm. PI. C'vl. v. pi. 121 [no. 579] (1835) 



[Coast of Corea and Japan] ; Reichenb. Natatores, pi. viii. fig. 31 



(1850). 

 Synthliboramphus temminekii, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Fetersb. ii. 



p. 347 (1837) ; id. Mclamj. Biol. vii. p. 220 (1869). 

 Uria un)izui;ume, Temm. ^- Schl. Faun. Jap., Aves, p. 123, pi. Ixxix. 



(1842). 

 Brachyrhamplius temminekii, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 644 (1848) ; 



Cassin in Perry E.vped. Juj). ii. p. 233 (1857) ; Elliot, B. N. Ainer. 



ii.pl. Ixxi. (1869). 

 Brachyrhamplius wumizusume, Reicheyib. Natatores, pi. vi. figs. 



2708-9 (1850). 

 Brachyramphus tenimincki, Baird, B. N. Anier. p. 910 (1858). 

 Alca teramincki, Schl. Mils. Pinjs-Bns, vi. Urinat. p. 22 (1867). 

 Synthliborhamphus wnrmizusume. Cones, P. Ac. Philad. 1868, 



p. 58; id. Key N. Amer. H. p. 344 (1872). 

 Brachyramphus wumizusume, G. R. Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 100 



(1871). 

 Brachvrhamphus umizusume, Blakist. ^ Fryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 210 



[Hakodadi] ; iid. Tr. As. Soc. Jap. x. p. 90 ( 1882). 

 Synthliborhamphus umizusume, Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. 



'p. 812 (1884). 

 Synthliboramphus wumizusume, Baird, Brew. Sf- Ridqw. Water- B. 

 "N. Amer. ii. p. 505 (1884) ; A. O. U. Check-l. p. 80 (1886) ; Stejn. 



P. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 624 (1886), x. p. 482 (1887) [Idzu, 



Japan]; Ridyw. Man. N. A. B. p. 14 (1887) ; Nelson, Rep. N.H. 



Alaska, p. 44 (1887) [not met with]. 

 Alca wumizusume, Seebohm, B. Japan, p. 277 (1890). 



Adult in breeding-plumage. Much like S. antiquus, but the fore- 

 head ornamented with an elongate crest of narrow black semi- 

 recumbent feathers ; only the middle of the crown and occiput 

 black ; the white stripes commencing on each side of the crest, 

 much wider and confluent on the hinder part of the crown ; the 

 black on the sides of the chest not streaked with white, the dark 

 grey on the throat not extending on to the fore-neck, and the 

 quills brownish-black on the outer web and terminal third of the 

 inner web, the remainder of which is white. Tail greyish black, 

 composed of 14 feathers. Iris dark brown, bill 3ellowish horn, 

 blackish along the ridge of the culraen and towards the base ; legs and 

 feet are apparently very similar in colour to those of S. antiqims. 

 Total length about 10-5 inches, culmen from feathers on forehead 

 to tip 0"7, from gape to tip 1-2, greatest depth of both mandibles at 

 base 0'35, wing 4-8, tail 1-4, tarsus 09, middle toe and claw I'l. 



