8 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
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Geroc. Dist.— Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from 
Kadiak and Japan northward. 
SuBGENUS PHALERIS Temmincx. 
Phalteris TEMM. Man. Orn. 1820, p. cxii. Type, by elimination, 
Alca pygmea GMEL. 
19. Simorhynchus pygmzeus (GMEL.). 
Whiskered Auklet. 
Ala pygme@a GMEL. S, N. I. il. 1788, 555. 
Simorhynchus pygm@us BRANDT, Mél. Biol. VII. 1869, 222. 
[Biy2n.@ 629. Rov4g C860. 
Groc. Dist.—Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from 
Unalaska through the Aleutian chain to Kamchatka. 
SuBGENUS CICHRONIA REICHENBACH. 
Ciceronia REICH. Syst. Av. 1852, p. ili. Type, Phaleris micro- 
ceros BRANDT = Uria pusilla PALL. 
20. Simorhynchus pusillus (PA.t.). 
Least Auklet. 
Uria pusilla Pat. Zoog. Rosso-As. II. 1826, 373, pl. 70. 
Simorhynchus pusillus Cours, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 324. 
[Biy22, 723, C624, R450, C S61.) 
Geroc. Dist.— Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from Sitka 
and Japan northward to Bering Strait. 
Genus SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS Branpt. 
Synthliboramphus BRANDT, Bull. Ac. St. Pétersb. II. 1837, 347. 
Type, Ala antigua GMEL. 
21. Synthliboramphus antiquus (GMEL.). 
Ancient Murrelet. 
Alca antigua GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 554. 
Synthliboramphus antiquus BRANDT, Bull. Ac. St. Pétersb. II. 
16295 347. 
