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ALCID.&—-continued. 
America. 
Phaleris psittaculus.* Pall. 
North-western America. (Gray’s Hand 
List, No. 10786.) 
Alca troile.* Linn. 
North American coast, south to New 
Jersey. (Baird, Cassin, and Law- 
rence. ) 
Rare, but breeds in Greenland. (New- 
ton.) 
Replaced on the Pacific coast by A. 
californica of Bryant. (Dresser.) 
Alca brunnichii.* Sab. 
Arctic Seas, and south in winter to 
Massachusetts. (Dresser.) 
Uria grylle.* Linn. 
Northern America, south to New Jersey. 
(Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
Numerous in Greeenland. (Newton.) 
Uria columba.* Pall. 
mot.) 
This variety inhabits the North Pacific ; 
and is found (according to Baird, 
Cassin, and Lawrence) in Western 
and North-Western America and 
Kamtchatka. 
(Western Guille- 
Meryulus alle.* (1.) Vieill. 
Northern America as far south as the 
middle United States. (Baird, Cassin, 
and Lawrence.) 
Breeds in Greenland. (Newton.) 
Phaleris psittaculus. 
Europe. 
Pall. 
Kamtchatka; Sweden. (Gray.) 
Alca troile.* Linn. (Common Guillemot.) 
Northern Europe, British Isles, and south 
along the west coast to Portugal, and 
occasionally as far as the north-west 
coast of Africa. 
In the extreme north of Europe it is 
replaced by A. brunnichii. (Dresser.) 
Alcea brunnichii.* Sab. (Brunnich’s Guille- 
mot.) 
Arctic Seas, Spitzbergen, and Novaya 
Zemlya, and southward in winter, 
once occurring at Havre. (Dresser.) 
A few have been taken in England and 
Scotland, and one in Ireland, on the 
Dublin coast, in June? (Blake, Knox, 
Zool., 1871, p. 2609.) 
Uria grylle.* Linn. (Black Guillemot.) 
Breeds in the British Isles. Found on 
the east coast of Scandinavia; Faroes; 
Iceland; Nova Zembla; Spitzbergen. 
Occasional on the coast of France and 
Holland. (Yarrell.) 
A very closely allied variety, U. mandtii 
of Licht., is found in Spitzbergen and 
Novaya Zemlya. 
Uria columba. Pall. 
Von Heuglin found a specimen in the 
Spitzbergen Seas which corresponds 
exactly with the typical U. columba. 
It is distinguished from U. grylle by 
a distinct black bar across the wing 
spot. (Newton.) 
Mergulus alle.* 
Auk.) 
Northern Europe. 
It is an irregular winter visitant to 
Britain, and is found in the Atlantic 
as far as the Canaries. ( Dresser.) 
(L.) Vieill. (Little 
PROCELLARID. 
Puffinus major.* Faber. 
The Atlantic coast from the St. Law- 
rence to Florida. (Baird, Cassin, and 
Tawrence. ) 
Common in Greenland, Reinhardt reports 
it as breeding there. (Newton.) 
Straitsof Magellen. (Sclater and Salvin.) 
Puffinus major.* Fabr. 
water. ) 
The Atlantic ocean south to the Cape of 
Good Hope, but not in the Baltie or 
Mediterranean. (Dresser.) 
Appears annually in Cornwall and 
Devon, and occasionally on other parts 
of the English and Irish coast. (Har- 
ting.) 
(Great Shear- 
