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CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Subfamily PHALERIN^. Auklets, Murrelms. Guillemots. 



Genus CERORHINCA B(3naparte. 



Cerorhinca Bonap. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 182S, 427. Type, C. occidentalis 

 Bp. = A lea monocerata Pall. 



15. Cerorhinca monocerata (Pall.). 



Rhiuoceros Auklet. 



Alca monocerata Pall. Zoog. Rosso-As. II. 1826, 362. 

 Cerorhina monocerata Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1S58, 905. 



[B 717, 718, C 620, R 746, C 857.] 



Hab. Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, breeding southward 

 to California and Japan ; in winter, southward to Lower California. 



Genus PTYCHORAMPHUS Brandt. 



Ptychoramphus Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. Pdtersb. II. 1837, 347. Type, 

 C/rfa aleutica Pall. 



16. Ptychoramphus aleuticus (Pall.). 



Cassia's Auklet. 



Uria aleutica Pall. Zoog. Rosso-As. II. 1726, 370. 

 Ptychoramphus aleuticus Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. II. 1837, 

 347. 



[6724,0625, R 751, C 862.] 



Hab. Pacific coast of North America, from the Aleutian Islands to 

 San Diego, breeding southward to the Farallones. 



Genus CYCLORRHYNCHUS Kaup. 



Cyclorrhynchas Kaup, Sk. Ent. Eur. Thierw. 1829, 15. Type, Alca 

 psittacula Pall. 



17. Cyclorrh3mchus psittaculus (Pall.). 



Paroquet Auklet. 



Alca psittacula Pall. Spic Zool. V. 1760, 13, pi. pi. v. figs. 4-6. 

 Cyclorhyiichus psittaculus Stejn. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VII. Aug. 5, 

 1884, 216. 



