8. PTVCHORHAMPHUS. 599 



Adult in non-hreediiig plumarje. Said to be similar to the above, 

 but the crest and white stripes on the head are absent, the throat 

 white, only the chiu being light plumbeous, and the sides and flanks 

 white strijjed with slate-grey. 



Young in down. Said to be brownish grey above ; the back and 

 rump indistinctly streaked with greyish white ; and the chin, throat, 

 and rest of the underparts pure white. 



Hah. Coasts of Japan. 



a. Ad. sk. Japan, summer. Leiden Mu?eum [E.]. 



Subfamily II. FRATERCULIN^. 



8. PTYCHORHAMPHUS. 



Type. 



Ptychoramphus, Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. FeU'isb. ii. p. 347 



(1B37) P. aleuticus. 



Bill rather long and stout, the length from the gape to the tip 

 being much less than that of the middle toe and claw ; breadth of 

 upper mandible at base greater than the depth ; culmen nearly 

 straight ; feathering on the lores distant from the posterior margin 

 of the nasal opening by nearly the length of the nasal opening. 

 Head and neck devoid of ornamental plumes. Inter-ramal feather- 

 ing extends to a vertical line drawn from the posterior border of the 

 nasal opening. Tail composed of 14 feathers. Metatarsus shorter 

 than the middle toe and claw. Size small. 



Bam/e. Pacific coasts of North America from the Aleutian 

 Islands to Lower California. 



1. Ptychorhamphus aleuticus. 



Uria aleutica, Pallas, Zooffi: Bosso-As. ii. p. 370 (1811) [Eastern 



parts of Bering Sea]. 

 Ptvchoramphus aleuticus, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Pefersb. ii. p. 347 



(1837) ; id. Melang. Biol. vii. p. 222 (18U9) ; Coues, Key N. Am. 



B. p. 343 (1872) ; Baird, Brew. ^- Eidr/ic. Water-B. N. Amer. ii. 



p. 617 (18S4); Stejn. Bull. U.S. Xat. Mus. xxix. pp. 27, 314 



(188o); A. O. U. Check-l. p. 78 (1886) ; Ridgw. Man. N. Ain. B. 



p. 12 (1887) ; Nelson, Rep. N. H. Alaska, p. 40 (1887) ; Law- 

 rence, Aid;, ix. p. 353 (1892) f^^ashingtou, B.C.] ; Loomis, P. Calif. 



Acad. (2) vi. p. 17 (1896) [California]. 

 Mergulus cassinii, Gamhel, P. Ac. Philad. 184.5, p. 266 [Coast of 



California] ; id. J. Ac. Philad. (2) ii. pi. vi. (1850). 

 Phaleris aleutica, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 638 (1848) ; Coinde, 



Rev. May. Zool. 1860, p. 403 [St. Paul's I.].^ 

 Arctica cas.-iinii, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 645 (1848). 

 Ptychorhamphus aleuticus, Baird, B. X. Amer. p. 910 (1858) ; 



Coues, P. Ac. Philad. 18G8, p. 52 ; ElVwt, B. N. Amer. ii. pi. Ixix. 



(1869); Nelson, Cruise Corwin, p. 116 (18S3) ; Coues, Key N. 



Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 810 (1884); Evermann, Auk, iii. p. 88 



(188()) [Ventura, California]; Stejjhens, Auk, x. p. 298 (1893) 



[habits]. 

 Sim.irlivnchus aleuticus, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bus, vi. Lrmat. p. 26 



(1867'). 



