278 ALCID.E. 



Japan. The birds from the Bering sea and the Pacific 

 coast of America have been recognised as distinct. 



TJria lomvia. Brunnich's Guillemot. 



Alca lomvia Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 130 : Green- 

 land [Hartert]. 



Lomvia bruennichi {Sabine) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 207. 

 TJria lomvia {Linn.); Ogilvie- Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 



1898, p. 577. 

 Uria bruennicM Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 701. 



Ijomvia, the northern word loon turned into Latin, 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Eare Visitor to the 

 east coast of Great Britain, most of the specimens obtained 

 being from the Yorkshire coast and one from the Firth of 

 Forth ; it has been doubtfully recorded from as far north 

 as Caithness and as far south as Suffolk. 



General Distrihution. — Bi iinnich's Guillemot breeds on the 

 coasts and islands of the Arctic Ocean, north Atlantic, Bering 

 sea, and north Pacific ; from about 82° N. latitude in Franz 

 Josef Land, south to Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen, Iceland, 

 Novaya Zemlya, and the north coast of Siberia, the islands 

 of Bering sea, the Kurile Islands, Japan, and the coasts of 

 Alaska south to Sitka; also from south Ellesmere Land and 

 north Greenland south to Hudson Bay and the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence. In winter some move somewhat farther 

 south and range to north Norvcay and the North sea, also 

 occasionally to South Carolina; in the Pacific to Japan. 

 It is occasionally found inland. Birds from Bering sea and 

 the north Pftcifjc have been recognised as a different race. 



TJria grylle, Black Guillemot. 



Alca grylle Linnceus, Sjst. Nat. 1758, p. 130 : Sweden. 

 TJria grylle {Linn.); B. O. V. List, 1st ed. 1883, p, 207; 

 Ogilvie- Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 1898, p. 580 j 

 Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 703. 

 6rylU=yp6\\ti, the grunting of ewine; yp!:\\os=^ pig; from its note. 



