11. CERORHTNCHA, 609 



a,b. c? ad. sk. Kurile Islauds, June (O. Snow). Seebohm Coll. 



c. c? ad. St. Commander Islands. G. E. H. Barrett- 



HamiIton,Esq.[P.]. 



d-f. cf 2 ad. sk. Bering I., Commander Group, G. E. H. Barrett- 

 summer. Hamilton, Esq. [P.], 



g, h. Ad. sk. Bering' Straits, spring. Purchased. 



i,j- cT ? ad.sk. St. Paul I., Pribyloff Group, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 June, July [H. W. Elliott). 



k. Ad.sk. St. George i., Pribyloff Gi'oup, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 July 1 (H. W. E.). 



I, in. Ad. sk. Alaska, April, June [E. W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Nelson). 



n-q. Ad. sk. St. Michael's, winter to spring Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 {E. W. N.). 



r. Skeleton. Kamschatka. Purchased. 



s. Trunk. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



11. CERORHYNCHA. ^ype. 



Cerorhinca, Bonap. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. p. 428 (1826). C. monocerata. 

 Chimerina, Eschsckoltz, Zool. Atlas, Heft iii. p. 2, 



pi. xii. (1829) C. monocerata. 



Oeratorrhina, Bonap. Oss. Reg. An. p. 134 (1830) ; id. 



Saggio, p. 62 (1831) C. monocerata. 



Cerorhina, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. ii p. 348 



(1837) .' C. monocerata. 



Cei-orhv^ifcr^'^' [ ^^'^"P- ^'""^- ^^^'^ ^- P- ^^ (1838). C. monocerata. 



Bill rather long, the length from gape to tip being about equal to 

 the middle toe and claw ; feathering on the lores terminating some 

 distance from the posterior border of the nasal opening. Head and 

 neck with ornamental plumes, Inter-ramal feathering extending to 

 a vortical lino drawn from the middle of the nasal opening. During 

 the breeding-season an elevated homy excrescence at the base of the 

 culmen. Tail composed of 16 (rarely 18) feathers. Metatarsus 

 shorter than the middle toe and claw. Size moderate. 



Bmuje. Coasts and islands of the North Pacific and Bering Sea : 

 from Japan, the Kurile Islands and Kamschatka to the Commander 

 Group, across Bering Sea to Alaska, and south to Lower California. 



1. Cerorhyncha monocerata. 



Alca monocerata, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- As. ii. p. 362 (1811) [Coast 



of Alaska]. 

 Phaleris cerorhyncha, Bonap. Zool. Journ. iii. p. o3 (1828). 

 Cerorliynca occidentalis, Bonap. Ann. Lye. N. Y. iv. p. 428 (1828) ; 



Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 641 (1831). 

 Chimerina cornuta, Eschsckoltz, Zool. Atl. Heft iii. p. 2, pi. xii. 



(1829) ; Bureau, Bull. Soc. Z. Fr. iv. p. 43, pi. iv. (1879). 

 Cerorhina orientalis, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. ii. p. 348 (1837). 

 Ceratorhyncha occidentalis, Aud. Orn. Biogr. v. p. 104, pi. ccccii. 



fig. (1839). 

 ? Alca torda, Temm. 8f Schl. Faun. Jap., Aves, p. 125 (1842). 



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