AVES. 7 



PYGOPODES. CEPPHI. 



ALCIDAE. 



Vt. — Irregular winter visitor. Nov.-Jan. 



Mass. — Uncommon, irregular winter visitor coastwise; occa- 

 sional inland. Nov. 21-Mar. 14 (April 15). 



R. I. — Uncommon and irregular winter visitor. Nov. 15- 

 Feb. 23. 



Conn. — Irregular winter visitor, sometimes common. Nov. 18- 

 Feb. 16. 



12. Alca torda Linne. 



Razor-billed auk; Razor-bill; Tinker murre; Tune. 



Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 130. "in Europae 

 BOREALis OCEANO." Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1844, vol. 7, p. 

 247, pi. 466. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 25, fig. 4-6. 



Rocky seacoasts; nests in rock crevices. 



Me. — Common winter visitor coastwise; said to have nested 

 formerly. 



N. H. — Uncommon winter visitor coastwise. Nov.-Mar. 

 Mass. — Uncommon winter visitor coastwise. Nov. 1-April 15. 

 R. I. — Rare winter visitor coastwise. Nov. 15-Feb. 4. 

 Conn. — Rare winter visitor coastwise. 



13. Plautus impennis (Linne) Steenstrup. 



Great auk; Garefowl. 



Alca impennis Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 130. "in 

 EuROPA ARCTiCA." Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1844, vol. 7, p. 

 245, pi. 465. Egg, S. Grieve, Great Auk, or Garefowl, London, 

 1885, pis. 1, 2 (opp. pp. 108, 109). 



Formerly a coastwise species, breeding at Funk Id., near New- 

 foundland, and at a few places on the European coast; last spec- 

 imen killed in 1844. 



