298 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
RanGE.— Coasts and islands of western Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, 
and North Pacific. Breeds from northwestern Alaska and northern 
coast of eastern Siberia south to Aleutian Islands; winters from 
the Aleutians south to Monterey Bay, California, and in Kuril Islands, 
Japan. 
Genus ASTHIA DuMont. 
Atthia “Merr.”’ Dumont, Dict. Sei. Nat. (revised ed.), I, 1816, Suppl., 
71. Type, by monotypy, Alca cristatella PALLas. 
Suscenus ASTHIA. 
ZEthia cristatélla (PALLAS). Crested Auklet. [18.] 
Alca cristatella Pauuas, Spic. Zool., I, Fasc. v, 1769, 18, pl. iii; pl. v, 
figs. 7-9. (Yesso, Japan, to Kamchatka.) 
RanGE.— Coasts and islands of Bering Sea and North Pacific, from 
Bering Strait south to Kadiak Island and Japan. 
Suspcenus ALCELLA Srone. 
Alcella Sronr, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 197. Type, by orig. desig., Alca 
pygmea GMELIN. 
AEthia pygméa (GMELIN). Whiskered Auklet. [19.] 
Alca pygmea GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 555. (“Bird Island, be- 
tween Asia and America.”’) 
Rance.— Aleutian Islands, and from Kamchatka to Japan. 
Suspcenus CICERONIA ReiIcHENBACH. 
Ciceronia REICHENBACH, Syst. Avium, 1852, iii. Type, by orig. desig., 
Phaleris nodirostra BONAPARTE = Uria pusilla PAuuas. 
ethia pusilla (PALLAs). Least Auklet. [20.] 
Uria pusilla Pauutas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiatica, II, 1826 (1811?), 373. 
(Kamchatka.) 
