~Tf^r,:- 



504 



THE DIVING BIRDS — PYGOPODES. 



Sjmthliboramphus antiquus. 



THE BLACK-THBOATED QUILLEMOT. 



Jlcn antiqua, G.MEi.. S. X. I. ii. 1788, 554, no. 11. 



Uria antiqua, Tkm.m. & Sciii.WJ. Fiiiiiia .lap. 1845, jil. 80. — AuD. Oni. P)iog. V. 1839, 100, pi. 402, 



lif,'. 12 ; r>. Am. Vll. 1844, 203, pi. 470, tij,'. 1 (but not fig. 2, whuh = lJiwli!jram}ihus KiUliIzi, 



siimiuer plnningc). 

 Unu-hiiramphus antiquus, Cit.vv, Ooii. H. 111. 1849, 644.— ("as.s. in Raird'.s B. N. Am. 1858, 916. — 



]5aii!I), Cat. N. Am. li. 1859, no. 736. 

 Jli'iiflii/ramjihus (.SjjntliUbDrawphit.i) antiquus, Bii.VNlvr, Hull. Ao. St. IVtcrsb. II. 1S37, 347. 

 Sijitthlibarhamiihus antiquus, C'ouE.s, I'r. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliilad. 1868,56 ; Key, 1872, 344 ; t'licck List, 



1873, no. 027; 2il eil. 1882, no. 804. — Bisaxdt, Mul. Piol. VII. 1869, 217. — liiUGW. Norn. 



N. Am. P. 1881, no. 753. 

 Ui-ia scnicutii, Tall. Zoog. Ilosso-As. II. 1826, 369, pi. 85. 

 Mircjutus cirrliocqihalus, Vio. Zool. Voy. Blossom, 1839, Piiils, p. 32. 

 Uradnjramphus braelii/jitcrus, Phandt, Hull. Ac. St.-rotcr.sb. 11.1837, 346 (<|Uotcs "Uria hrachi/ptcra, 



KiTTLiTZ, MSS."). — OuAY, Gen. H. III. 1849, 044. —Cass, in Haiid's H. N. Am. 1858, 917. — 



Baiud, Cat. N. Am. H. 1859, no. 734. — ColKs, Pr. Pliilad. Acad. 1868,60 ; 2d Check List, 18S2, 



no. 870. — PiDGW. Xom. N. Am. H. 1881, no. 759. 



IIab. Coasts and i.slands of the North Pacific, from Japan to Kanitschatka, across the Akutian 

 chain, and south to Sitka. 



Sp. Char. Adult, hrecOinfi-plumaijf : Head and neck cliiofly black, duller and more fuliginous 

 anteriorly and on the throat ; on each side of the occijiut, from above the middle of the eyes to the 

 inipe, a serie.s of white streaks, blended so as ro form a broad stripe, tho.se of ojiposite sides some- 

 times meeting across the lower part of the occiput ; black of the throat separated from that of the 



11 ! J 



Summer plumage. 



nape by ft broad intervening space of white, which extends upward on each side of the neck to 

 the auricular region. Lower parts continuous wliitc, the sides and (lanks, beneath the wings, sooty 

 black. Upper iiarts uniform plumbeous, the anterior lesser coverts and the remiges darker ; sides 

 of the upper back, between the deep black of the nape and tlie dull black on the sides of the 

 breast, black, marked with numerotis broad white streaks. Bill yellowish, the basal half blackish ; 

 iris In-own ; legs and feet dull yellowish fin the .skin), tlie webs dusky. Winter plunuuje : Simi- 

 lar to the above, but whide tliroat white (the chin, sometimes upper throat also, plumbeous), the 

 broad white latero-occipital stripes and the streaks on the upper back absent ; the sides and Hanks 

 wiiite, tiio outermost feathers striped with slaty. 



Total length, about O.SO-IO.W) inches ; extent, l(i."5-18.25 ; wing, 5.25-5.50 ; culmen, .GO ; 

 tarsus, .!)5-l.(H); middle toe, without claw, 1.00-1.05. 



