BIRDS — ALCIDAE — UEIA LOMVIA. 913 



URIA CAEBO, (Pallas.) 



Oepphus carlo, Pallas, Zoog. EosBo-Asiat. II, 1811, 350. 



FiGUKEs. — Pallas, Zoog. Kosso-Asiat. pi. 79. — Eeiohenbaoh, Vollst. Naturg. Avea, pi. 375, fig. 2937. 



S p . Ch.— ^Larger than either of the preceding; bill rather long, compressed ; wing moderate. Space around and behind the 

 eye, white. AU other parts of the plumage brownish black, rather paler than in either of the preceding, and more tinged with 

 ashy on the under parts, and at the base of the bill ; under wing coverts and axillaries dark ashy brown ; some of the former 

 tipped with white ; bill bluish black ; feet red. 



Total length about 14^ inches ; wing, 7^ ; tail, 3 inches. 



Eab. — ^Aleutian Islands, (Pallas;) Kamtschatka, (Mus. Acad. Fhilad.;) Northwestern coast of America. 



This singular and little known bird, thougli resembling botb of the preceding in form and 

 general appearance, can be recognized without difficulty by the white space around the eye 

 and clear black of the wings. It is represented by Pallas to be an inhabitant of the Aleutian 

 Islands, but the only specimens that have come under our notice are in the Museum of the 

 Philadelphia Academy, and are from Kamtschatka. 



Cataraetes, Moehring. 



UEIA LOMVIA, Briinnich. 



The Foolish Gnillemot; The Mnrre. 



Uria lomvia, BrCnnich, Orn. Eor. 1764, 27. 

 Uria svarbag, Brunnich, Orn. Bor. 1764, 27. 

 Colynibus troile, Linn, Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 230. 

 Colymbus minor, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 585. 



FiGORES.— Bdfp. PI. Enl. 903 Gould, B. of Eur. IV, pi. 396.— Naumann, B. of Germ. pi. 331. 



Sp. Ch. Bill rather long, pointed, compressed; from the lateral feathers longer than the tarsus or than the inner toe and claw. 



A narrow line under and behind the eye dark brown; head above and entire other upper parts brownish black; sides of the 

 head and entire under parts white; sides of the body under the wing with transverse stripes of ashy brown; under wing coverts 

 white, secondary quills tipped with white. Bill blackish brown, paler at base. Tarsi and feet dark greenish brown. Summer 

 plumage, with the entire hind and upper parts of body, dark sooty brown; under parts white. Head and orbital region dusky, 

 without white stripes. 



Total length about 15 inches; wing, 7i inches; tail, 2 inches. 



Ho6.— Northern coasts of America; Northern Europe and Asia. 



This is the bird regarded as the true Uria troile of Linnaeus by a majority of late European 

 authors and is figured as such on Mr. Gould's Birds of Europe, cited above. It is the next 

 species, however, which is given by Mr. Audubon under this name. 



Authors are by no means unanimous in the opinion that the present species and that immedi- 

 ately succeeding are really distinct; and, in fact, doubts are expressed by very accomplished and 

 reliable naturalists, amongst which is Mr. Gould, in Birds of Europe, who figures both the 

 supposed species. We have no doubt that this bird inhabits the northern regions of this conti- 

 ^nent, though we have never seen an American specimen. 



Oct. 15, 1858. 



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