ORDER PYGOPODES. 79 



[B 725, C 621, R 747, C 858.] 



Hab. Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from the Aleutian 

 and Kurile Islands northward. 



Genus SIMORH7NCHTJS Merrem. 



Subgenus SIMORHYNCHUS. 



Simorhynchus Merrem, in Er.-ch & Gruber's Encycl. i sect. II. 

 18 19, 403. Type, A lea cristatella Pall. 



18. Simorhynchus cristatellus (Pall.). 



Crested Auklet. 



Alca cristatella Pall. Spic. Zool. V. 1769, 20, pi. iii., pi. v. figs. 7-9. 

 Simorhynchus cristatellus Bonap. Compt. Rend. XLII. 1856, 774. 



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



Hab. Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from Kadiak and 

 Japan northward. 



Subgenus PEALERIS Temminck. 



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

 pygmcea Gmel. 



19. Simorhynchus pygmaeus (Gmel.). 



Whisltered Auklet. 



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



Simorhynchus pygmcpus Brandt, Mel. Biol. VII. 1869, 222. 



[B721, C dzz, R 749, C 860.] 



Hab. Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from Unalashka 

 through the Aleutian chain to Kamtschatka. 



SuBGE.-^us CICEHONIA Reichenbach 



Ciceronia Reich. Syst. Av. 1852, p. iii. Type, Phaleris microceros 

 Bk \^Dr =z C/riapusilla Palz.. 



20. Simorhjnichus pusillus (Pall.). 



Least Auklet. 



Uriapusilla Pall. Zoog. Rnsso-As. II. 1826, 373, pi. 70. 

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



