12 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
31. Uria lomvia (Linv.). 
Brunnich’s Murre. 
Alca lomvia Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 130. 
Uria lomvia BRYANT, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. VIII. May, 1861, 75. 
[B 731, C 635, R 764a, C 876.] 
Geroc. Dist.—Coasts and islands of the North Atlantic and 
eastern Arctic Oceans; south to the lakes of northern New York 
and the coast of New Jersey. Breeding from the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence northward. 
31a. Uria lomvia arra (PALL.). 
Pallas’s Murre. 
Cepphus arra Pau. Zoog. Rosso-As. II. 1826, 347. 
Uria lomvia arra Ripcw. Water B. N. Am. II. Sept. 1884, 485. 
[Bu Ca RB hag 
Geoc. Dist.— Coasts and islands of the North Pacific and 
western Arctic Oceans, south to Kadiak and Kamchatka. 
Genus ALCA Linne&vs. 
Alca Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 130. Type, by elimination, 
Alca torda LINN. 
32. Alea torda LINN. 
Razor-billed Auk. 
Alca torda LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 130. 
[B 711, C 616, R 742, C 877.] 
Geoc. Dist.— Coasts and islands of the North Atlantic, south in 
winter on the North American coast casually to North Carolina, 
breeding from eastern Maine northward. 
Genus PLAUTUS Britwnicu. 
Plautus Brinn. Zool. Fund. 1772, 78. Type, Alca impennis LINN. 
