CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 23 
30a. Californian Guillemot. Murre. 
Unia troile californica (BRYANT) Ripew. 1884. 
An abundant resident along the entire Aleutian chain and the 
mainland coast of the Pacific. Elliott found them to occur on 
the Prybiloff Islands in small numbers ; birds and eggs have been 
taken at Sitka and Kadiak Island. (JVelson.) Observed as far 
north as St. Matthew Island. (Zzrner.) Abundant in Cook’s 
Inlet, Alaska. (Dr. Bean.) The same distribution as the Pigeon 
Guillemot but not nearly so abundant ; appears to be more com- 
mon, however, at Victoria, B.C., in the winter months. (Fannin.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Eces.—One egg, said to be collected on the west coast of Van- 
couver Island, received from Mr. John Tolmie ; also five others 
taken at Fort Wrangle, Alaska, by Dr. Otto Klotz in July 1889. 
31. Brunnich’s Murre. Thick-billed Guillemot. 
Uria lomvia (LINN.) BRYANT. I86I. 
Abundant in the Bay of Fundy during winter. (Chamberlain.) 
Quite common along the coast of Newfoundland. (Reeks.) 
Doubtless the commonest bird on the Greenland coast, but said 
not to breed farther south than Lat.64°N. (Arct. Man.) Plenti- 
ful on the eastern and southern shores of Labrador, where it 
resides and breeds. (Packard.) Breeds abundantly on Great 
Bird Rock, Magdalen Islands. (Szshop.) This Guillemot fre- 
quents the most remote Arctic American seas that have been 
visited, Greenland and Hudson Bay, and goes south in winter. 
(Richardson.) From Resolution Island to Grinnell Bay and 
Frobisher Strait they are common, even as far as the mouth of 
Cumberland Gulf, but apparently rare in its waters. There are 
large breeding places about capes Mercy and Walshingham ; the 
largest ‘‘rookery ”’ being on the Padlic Islands, in Exeter Sound, 
(Kumelin.) 
A bird that has become plentiful the last few years in places 
between Kingston and Brockville. They usually appear in the 
month of December, and as they are very tame and come almost 
up toa boat, they are readily slaughtered. Two menkilled forty 
in a short time near Rockport, Ont.,in December 1806, just before 
the River St. Lawrence froze up. None of the common species 
have been observed in this locality. This bird was seen about 
