SIMORHYNCHUSCERORHYNCHA 871 



Hob. North Pacific and the Arctic Ocean south to Japan ; 

 Kamchatka, the Commander and Kurile Islands ; Alaska. 



In habits it does not appreciably differ from its allies. It 

 breeds in crevices of rocks or under huge boulders, in June, 

 laying a single dull white egg, very faintly marked with pale 

 reddish brown at the larger end, which measures 1*62 by 1'07. 



1204. PARROQUET AUK. 

 SIMORHYNCHUS PSITTACULUS. 



Simorhynchus psittaculus (PalJ.), Spicel. Zool. fasc. v. pis. ii. and v. 

 figs. 4-6 ; (Tacz.), F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 1227 ; (Elliot), B. N. Am. ii. 

 pi. Ixx. ; (Seebohm), B. Jap. Emp. p. 284 ; (Ogilvie Grant), Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus. xxvi. p. 607 ; (Ridgway), p. 12. 



( ad. (Kuriles). Head, neck to upper breast, tipper parts, wings, tail, 

 and flanks deep smoky black, rather browner on the neck ; rest of under 

 parts white ; a band of narrow elongate white feathers from behind the 

 eye across the ear-coverts ; bill salmon-red ; nasal shield darker, greyish 

 brown ; soft part along the base of the upper tomia fleshy white ; feet 

 bluish white tinged with yellow, on the joints a well-defined dusky spot ; 

 webs blackish, along the toes bluish white ; sides of tarsus and toes black ; 

 iris white. Gape TO, wing 6'1, tail 1*85, tarsus T25 inch. 



Hob. North Pacific from the Chukchi Peninsula to the 

 Kuriles, but not on the coasts of Eastern Siberia, though it 

 occurs on those of Kamchatka ; Commander Isles and Alaska. 



In habits it is said to resemble its allies. Its note is a clear 

 whistle like that of Uria grylle and U. columba. It lays in 

 June, in the crannies of almost inaccessible cliffs, its single 

 egg, which is dull chalky white without any markings. A 

 single egg in my collection measures 1*62 by 1*17. 



CERORHYNCHA, Bp., 1826. 



1205. HORNBILLED PUFFIN. 

 CERORHYNCHA MONOCERATA. 



Cerorhyncha monocerata (Pall.), Zoogr. Koss. As. ii. p. 362 (1811); 

 (Tacz.), F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 1241 ; (Seebohm), B. Jap. Emp. p. 283 ; 

 Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxvi. p. 609 ; Ridgway, p. 12. 



<J ad. (Japan). Upper parts generally, wings, and tail black ; sides of 

 head, chin, neck, and upper breast, flanks, and under wing-coverts brownish 

 smoke-grey ; rest of under parts white from the gape, and also from behind 



