8 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B 719, 720, C 622, R 748, C 859.] 



Geog. Dist. — Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from 

 Kadiak and Japan northward. 



Subgenus PHALERIS Temminck. 



Phaleris Temm. Man. Orn. 1820, p. cxii. Type, by elimination, 

 Alca pygmcea Gmel. 



19. Simorhynchus pygmaeus (Gmel.). 



Whiskered Auklet. 



Alca pygmcea Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 555. 

 Simorhynchus pygmceus Brandt, M61. Biol. VII. 1869, 222. 

 [B 721, C 623, R 749, C 860.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from 

 Unalaska through the Aleutian chain to Kamchatka. 



Subgenus CICERONIA Reichenbach. 



Ciceronia Reich. Syst. Av. 1852, p. iii. Type, Phaleris micro- 

 ceros Brandt = Uria pusilla Pall. 



20. Simorhynchus pusillus (Pall.). 



Least Auklet. 



Uria pusilla Pall. Zoog. Rosso- As. II. 1826, 373, pi. 70. 

 Simorhynchus pusillus Coues, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila, 1862, 324. 



[B 722, 723, C 624, R 750, C 861.] 



Geog. Dist. — Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from Sitka 

 and Japan northward to Bering Strait. 



Genus SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS Brandt. 



Synthliboramphus Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. P(5tersb. II. 1837, 347- 

 Type, Alca antiqua Gmel. 



21. Synthliboramphus antiquus (Gmel.). 



Ancient Murrelet. 



Alca atitiqua Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 554. 



Synthliboramphus a?itiquus Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. P^tersb. II. 



1837. 347- 



