538 Ca/J^. Sabine's Memoir on the Birds of Greenland, ^c. 

 14. Uria Brunnichii. Briumich's Gnillonot. 



I'ria Troille. Briin. no. 109- 



Until the last autumn this bird was known to naturalists on the 

 authority alone of Briinnich ; who, in his Ornithologia Borealis hav- 

 ing described the species at present denominated the Uria Troilc, 

 under the specific name of Lomvia, proceeds to notice the exist- 

 ence of a second species much resembling it, and which he names 

 the Uria Troile : this second species is the present bird. Linneus 

 originally called the first bird AIca Lomvia in his Systema Natura, 

 edit. 10. (1758) vol. i. 130 ; but in the second edition of his Fauna 

 Suecica (1761), he named it Troile. Briinnich in 1764 took up the 

 specific appellation of Lomvia from the SystemaNatur^, adding the 

 description he found given of it in the Famia Suecica under the 

 name of Troile, and applied Troile to his new bird, referring, how- 

 ever, to the Fauna Suecica probably as authority for the name. 

 From this confusion I apprehend it has arisen that both these birds 

 have not since Briinnich published his work been noticed by ge- 

 neral authors as distinct species. Dr. Leach on examining this bird 

 ascertained it to be a distinct species ; and not being aware that it 

 had been previously distinguished and described by Briinnich, ex- 

 hibited it at the Linnean Society as a new species, under the name 

 of UriaFrancsii in compliment to Mr. Frederick Franks, whom he 

 then supposed to have been the person by whom it had been first 

 killed. I have already had occasion, when speaking of the Fha- 

 laropus Flatyrynchos, to remark the accuracy in observation of 

 Briinnich. It is but justice to attach his name to a species of 

 ■which his claim to priority of knowledge and of communication 

 is unquestionable. Latham {Synopsis vi. 330) notices this bird of 

 Briinnich's, but considers it a variety of the Foolish Guillemot. 



The Uria Briinnichii was found in abundance in Davis's Straits, 



and 



