ilO AXATID^. 



(1859); Elliot, Illustr. Am. B. pi. 45 (1806); Eyt. Si/ii. Anal. 



p. 25(1869); Dull ^- Bannist. Tr. Chic. Ac. i. p. 296 (1869); 



G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 77, n. 18592 (1871) ; Cojies, Check-lid, 



2nd ed. p. 112, n. 698 (1882) ; Dall, Notes Avif. Aleut. Isl. Unal. 



Eastio. p. 5 (1873) : Adams, Ibis, 1878, p. 429 (Michalaski) ; 



mi?i. Sr Rchmo. JVotn. Mus. Hein. Oni. p. ^43 (1890). 

 Philacte canagica, Bannist. Fr. Acad.Philad. 1870, p. 131 ; Cones, Key, 



p. 283, f. 183 (1872); id. Check^list, n. 482(1873); id.B.N.-West, 



p. 558 (1874); Dall, Notes Avif . Aleut. Isl. West JJnal. p. (1874) ; 



Coues, Elliott, s Aff. Alaska, ^^A^Sd {\%iry); Ridgw. Norn. N.Am. 



B. n. 698 (1882) ; Elliott, Mon. Seal Isl. p. 130 (1882); Nelson, 



Cruise ' Corwm,' 1881, p. 95 (1883) ; B., B., S,- R. Water-Birds N. 



Am. ii. p. 477 with tig. (1884) ; Cones, Kei/ N. Am. B. 2nd ed. 



p. 689. with fig. p. 688^(1884) ; Murdoch, Exp. to Point Barrow, 



p. 117 (1885); Turner, Auk, 1885, p. 168; A. O. U. Code of 



Nomencl. ^- Check-list, p. 128, n. 170 (1886) ; Ridyiv. Man. N. 



Am. B. p. 118 (1887) ; Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 142 



(1887) ; Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 135 (Behring I.) (1887) ; 



Toivnsend, ibid. p. 196 (Humboldt Bay, California) (1887) ; 



Nelson, Nat. Hist. Coll. in Alaska, p. 89, pi. iv. (1887) ; Fannin, 



Auk, 1895, p. 76 (Vancouver 1.). 

 Chen canagica. Newt. Enc. Brit. 9tli ed. x. p. 778 (1879) ; id. Diet. 



o/^. p. 374 (pt. 2, 1893). 



Adult. Head and nape white, the former frequently stained, 

 especially anteriorly, with rusty or orange rufous ; throat and neck, 

 frontally and laterally, brownish black or dusky greyish brown ; 

 tail slaty black, and white on terminal half ; prevailijig colour of 

 rest of plumage bluish ash, each feather variegated by a narrow 

 terminal bar of white and a broader subterminal crescent-shaped 

 one of black, these markings nearly obsolete on abdomen and 

 crissum ; greater coverts and secondaries slate-black, conspicuously 

 margined with white ; anterior lesser coverts, primaries and 

 primary-coverts jilain slaty grey : " lower mandible d;irk horn- 

 colour, with a white spot on each side of branching rami ; mem- 

 brane about nares livid blue, rest of upper mandible pale purplish, 

 with a fleshy-white wash ; edge of 2iail dark horn-colour, rest of 

 the nail horn-white ; iris hazel ; legs and feet bright orange-yellow " 

 (E. W. Nel<ion). Total length about '2G inches, wing 14-36-1 5-75, 

 tail 5, culmen 1-40-1-65, tarsus 2-60-2-85. 



Immature birds have the white of the head thickly speckled with 

 black. 



Young. oSTearly similar to the adult, but the head and neck 

 plumbeous, the former speckled with white, especially on top ; the 

 transverse barring of the feathers le.ss distinct than in the adult ; 

 bill and feet dusky. 



Hah. Coast of Alaska, north of the peninsula, chiefly about the 

 shores of Norton Sound and the valley of the Lower Yukon ; it 

 migrates south as far as Humboldt Bay in California ; Bering Island 

 and coast of N.E. Asia, west as far as the Tschuktschi Peninsula 

 {Nordenshiold). 



a. Ad. st. Aleutian Is. Purchased. 



b. S ad. sk. Alaska. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



