I 



0. siMOKiivscnrs. 605 



as the elongate tufts of white plumes are retained throup^liout the 

 year. 



Iinnmture. Rimihir to the above, hut the crest and ornamental 

 jilumes are absent or faintly indicated by a patch of whitish leathers 

 on the lores. 



Yoniif/ in down. " Dark smoky-brown above, lighter and of a more 

 greyish tint on the abdomen" (L. Stfjneijer). 



Huh. Coasts of the jN'orth Pacific : from North Japan, the Kurilo 

 Islands, and Kamschatka to the Commander Group and across 

 Uering Sea to Alaska. 



«-c. cJad. etimni. Kamschatka. Purc'jased. 



sk. 



d-k. S 5 ad. et Ushisir, Kurile Is. (O. <Sfto;i'). Seebohm Coll. 



imm. sk. et st. 

 I. 2 jiiv. sk. At sea off" the Commander C. E. 11. Barrett- 

 Group, Aug. 19. TIamilton,Esq.[P.]. 

 in. Juv.sk. Copper I, Commander Group, G. E. II. Barrett- 

 Aug. 10. Hamilton, E.^q [P.]. 

 n. Skeleton. 



3. Simorhynohus pusillus. 



Uria pu.silla, Pallas, Zoot/r. liossi-As. ii. p. .373, j>l, xc. (1811) [Kams- 

 chatka]. 

 Minute Auk, Lath. Gen. Hid. x. p. 72 (1824). 

 Phaleris corniculatus, Esch'^choUz, Zonl. Atl. Heft iv. p. 4 (1831). 

 Phaleri.s microceros, Brundt, Bull. Acitd St. Pi'tersh. ii. p. 347 (1837) ; 



Baird, B. N. Ainer. p. 908 (18-58) ; Dull Sj- Bann. Tr. Chkaqo 



Acad. \. ]). 309 (1869) [Aliaska; St. George I.; Plover Bav] ; 



Ilartinij. P. Z. & 1871, p. 121 [Bering Straits], 

 Plialeris pygni;ea, Brandt. Bull. Acnd. St. Pett-rsb. ii. p. 347 (1837). 

 Cerorhinca occidentalis, Viyurs, Zool. Voy. Blossom, Birds, p. 33 



(1839) [St. Lawrence I.]. 

 Phaleris nodirostris, Bonap. Cvmp. List B. p. 66 (1838) rde»crip. 



null.]; And. Or7i. Bioc/r. v. p. 101, pi. ccccii. fig. 3 (1839); id. 



B. Amer. vii. p. 2oo, pi. cccclxviii. ( 1844) ; G. Ji. Grai/, Gen. B. iii. 



p. 038, pi. clxxv. (1848) ; Reichpnb. Xatatores, pi. vi.'fig.'^. 2704-5, 



pi. vii. tigs. 2224-5 (1850). 

 Cicerouia nodirostris, Reichenh. Nctilrl. Syst. Voy. p. iii {1852). 

 Phaleris pusilla, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 909 (1858) ; Coindc, Bev. 



Maq. Zool. 1860, p. 403 [St. Paul I.] ; Cassin. P. Ac. Philad. 



1862, p. 324 [Bering Straits] ; imiot, B. X. Amer. ii. pi. Ixviii. 



(1869) ; Dall^- Bann. 'JV. C/iiraqo Acad. i. p. 300 (l.-^OO) [Aliaska]; 



Blakist. ^- Pri/er, Tr. As. Soc. 'jaj). viii. p. 179 (1880), x. p. 89 



(1882). 

 Simorhvnchus pvgmseus, Schl. (necGmel.) Mus. Pni/s-Bas,\\.VxmaX. 



p. -riilSQl):' Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 31 [Ilakodadi]. 

 Simorhvnchus microcero.s. Cones, P. Ac. Philad. 186-?, p. 46; G. JR. 



Gray, Hnnd.-l. B. iii. p. 98 (1871). 

 Siinoriivuclius pusillus, Cones. P. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 48; Brandt, 



Mela'nr/. Biol. \n. p. 2-30 (I'^OO); Cones, Kei/ X.Am. B. p. 343 



(1872): Finsch, Abh. Xat. Ver. Brem. iii. p.'Sl (1872) rst. Paul 



I.] ; Elliott, Seal-Isl. Alaska, p. 134 (1881); Cones. Key X. Amer. 



B. 2ud ed p. 808 (1884) ; Stejn. Bull. U.S. Xat. .Mus. xxix. p. 3.5, 



