ORDER PYGOPODES. 9 
[B 734, 736,-C 627,,R'753, 759, C 864, 870.] 
Geoc. Dist.— Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from 
southern Vancouver Island and Japan northward. Accidental in 
Wisconsin. 
Genus BRACHYRAMPHUS Branpt. 
Brachyramphus BRanpt, Bull. Ac. St. Pétersb. II. 1837, 346. 
Type, Colymbus marmoratus GMEL. 
23. Brachyramphus marmoratus (GMEL.). 
Marbled Murrelet. 
Colymbus marmoratus GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 583. 
Brachyramphus marmoratus BRANDT, Bull. Ac. St. Pétersb. IT. 
1837, 346. 
[B 732, 733, C 629, R 755, C 866.] 
Geroc. Dist.— Coasts and islands of the North Pacific; on the 
American coast from San Diego northward, and breeding as far 
south as Vancouver Island. 
24. Brachyramphus kittlitzii Branopr. 
Kittlitz’s Murrelet. 
Brachyramphus kittlitzii BRANDT, Bull. Ac. St. Pétersb. II. 1837, 
346. 
[B 735, C 630, R 756, C 867.] 
Groc. Dist.— Northern Japan, Kamchatka and Aleutian Islands, 
east to Unalaska. 
25. Brachyramphus hypoleucus XantTUvs. 
Xantus’s Murrelet. 
Lrachyrhamphus hypoleucus Xantus, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
Nov. 1859, 299. 
[B—, C—, R 757, C 868.] 
Geroc. Dist.— Coasts of southern and Lower California, from 
Santa Barbara Island to Cape St. Lucas. 
