28 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 JETHIA DUMONT. 



thia "MERR." DUMONT, Diet. Sci. Nat. (revised ed.), I, 1816, Suppl., 

 71. Type, by monotypy, Alca cristatella PALLAS. 



SUBQENUS JETHIA. 



JEthia cristatella (PALLAS). Crested Auklet. [18.] 



Alca cristatella PALLAS, Spic. Zool., I, Fasc. v, 1769, 18, pi. iii; pi. 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. 



SUBGENUS ALCELLA STONE. 



Alcella STONE, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 197. Type, by orig. desig., Alca 

 pygmcea GMELIN. 



-ffithia pygmsea (GMELIN). Whiskered Auklet. [19.] 



Alca pygmcea GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 555. ("Bird Island, be- 

 tween Asia and America.") 



RANGE. Aleutian Islands, and from Kamchatka to Japan. 



SUBGENUS CICERONIA REICHENBACH. 



Ciceronia REICHENBACH, Syst. Avium, 1852, iii. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Phaleris nodirostra BONAPARTE = Uria pusilla PALLAS. 



-ffithia pusilla (PALLAS). Least Auklet. [20.] 



Uria pusilla PALLAS, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiatica, II, 1826 (1811?), 373. 

 (Kamchatka.) 



