28o I'^ir.Ln Museum oI' Nati'rai. Histokv Zoology, Vol. IX. 



Suhfaniilv ^vTHIIN/^^.. Auklets, Guillemots, etc. 

 Gcmis SYNTHLIHORAMPHUS Brandt. 



6. Synthliboramphus antiquus (Gmel.). 



Ancient Murrelet. 



Adult in situniwr: wSizc, small; deptli of bill, more than half its 

 length; sides of neck and stripe on side of occiput and through the 

 eye, white; rest of head, black; back, plumbeous, with lateral streaks 

 of white; under ]iarts, white. 



Adult ill winter: Head, dusky; back, plumbeous; throat and under 

 parts, white. 



Length, about lo inches; wing, 5.40; bill, .65. 



Mr. Geo. B. Sennett states that he examined an adult mounted 

 specimen of this species at " Koshkonong Place," which was killed 

 late in October, 1882, on Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin, l)y Rev. G. E. 

 Gordon (Auk, 1884, p. 98). The occurrence of a bird of this species 

 in Wisconsin is, of course, most extraordinary. Its true habitat is 

 the North Pacific ocean, from Vancouver Island northward. 



Subfamily ALLINtE. Dovekies. 



Genus ALLE Link. 

 6-1. Alle alle (Linn.). 



Uovekie. Little Auk. 

 Distr.: Coasts of north Atlantic and eastern Arctic oceans; casual 

 in winter on the Atlantic coast as far south as New Jersey; accidental 

 in Michigan and Wisconsin. 



DoN'ekies. 



