400 CEPPHUS COLUMBA.—URIA ALLE. 
CEPPHUS COLUMBA, Pallas. — 
[§ 4922. Fowr.—Farallone Islands, California. * From Dr. 
Heermann, 1861. ] 
[§ 4923. Mowr.—Farallone Islands. From Dr. Heermann. | 
BRACHYRHAMPHUS WUMIZUSUME (Temminck). 
[§ 4924. One.—West coast of Japan. From Dr. Isao [jima, 
through Canon Tristram, 1891. 
Given to Canon Tristram at Tokyo, by Dr. Ijima, who said he had taken 
it himself, from a rock on the west coast near the Seven Islands. There were 
several specimens of the birds obtained at the same time. The egg of this 
species seems not to have been described. The present one is of a clay- 
brown colour, with streaks, mostly vermiform, but occasionally coalescing to 
form a blotch, of a deeper shade. In shape it is elongated, with both ends 
nearly similar, as in a Sand-Grouse’s egg. It measures 2-17 by 174 inch. } 
URIA ALLE (Linneus). 
ROTCHE or LITTLE AUK. 
§ 4925. One.—‘ Baffin’s Bay.” From Mr. Hewitson, 1844. 
[Apparently received from the north by Mr. John Hancock. | 
§ 4926. One.—Grimsey, Iceland, 1843. From Mr. Proctor, 
1844. 
§ 4927. Two—Melville Bay, 24 June, 1849. From Mr. 
Robert Goodsir, 1850. 
These two eggs were cut out of the birds, shot in Melville Bay, as 
mentioned in Mr. Goodsir’s ‘ Arctic Voyage’ (p. 56), where he says 
he has more than once killed four or five hundred in anhour. Eggs 
were fully developed in almost all the females. He very kindly gave 
me these two, drilled with a piercer with which I had provided him. 
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