750 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Adult female.—Wing, 127; tail, 29; exposed culmen, 10.5; tarsus, 
15.5; middle toe, 23.2 
Coasts and islands of Alaska, from Sitka, and Glacier Bay to 
Cook Inlet (off Homer, Aug. 3) and Unalaska Island; coast of north- 
eastern Siberia (westward along Arctic coast to Cape Yakan) and 
Kamchatka (Petropaulski), southward in winter to northern Japan 
(Hakodate). 
Uria brevirostris Viaors, Zool. Journ., iv, 1828, 357 (‘‘San Blas, Mexico,’’i.e., 
Tepic; type now in coll. Brit. Mus.); Zool. Voy. ‘Blossom,’ Birds, 1839, 32. 
Brachyramphus brevirostris SresneczR, Zeitschr. ges. Orn., ili, 1886, 211 (crit.); 
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., xxi, 1898, 273 (Kuril Islands).—Caarman, Bull, Am. 
Mus. N. H., xx, 1904, 399 (Cook Inlet, off Homer, Alaska, Aug. 3).—AMERICAN 
OrnrrsoLocists’ Union Commrirrer, Auk, xxv, 1908, 357; Check List, 
8d ed., 1910, p. 29.—Tuaver and Banes, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, v, 
1914, 8 (Arctic coast e. Siberia, west to Cape Yakan). 
B [rachyramphus] brevirostris Ripeway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 15. 
Brachyrhamphus brevirostris Barrp, Brewer, and Ripeway, Water Birds N. Am., 
ii, 1884, 499, footnote.—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 
iii, 1908, 446 (‘San Blas, Tepic’’).—Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvi, 
1898, 593 (‘‘San Blas, Tepic;’’ Kamchatka). 
Alca brevirostris SEEBOHM, Birds Japanese Emp., 1890, 279. 
Brachyramphus kittlitzii Branpt, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb., ii, 1837, 346 (Petro- 
paulski, Kamchatka); Mélang. Biol., vii, 1869, 215 (Petropaulski).—Cassin, 
in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 917.—_Bairp, Brewer, and Rinc- 
way, Water Birds N. Am., ii, 1884, 501.—Stesneaer, Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 
no. 29, 1885, 314 (Petropaulski, Kamchatka). 
Brachyramphus kittlitzi’ Taczanowsxt, Journ. fiir Orn., 1876, 203 (Usuri, e. 
Siberia).—BLaxiston and Prysr, Ibis, 1878, 210 (Hakodate, Japan).— 
AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Union, Check List, 1886, and 2d ed., 1895, 
no. 24.—Turner, Contr. N. H. Alaska, 1886, 120, pl. 2 (Unalaska; winter 
plumage described and figured).—Nzuson, Rep. N. H. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 
44, pl. 1 (Unalaska Harbor; summer plumage described and figured). 
Blrachyramphus] kittlitei Rioeway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 15. 
Blrachyrhamphus] kittliieti Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1848, 644. 
Brachyrhamphus kitilitzii Barry, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 735.—Covss, 
Check List, 1873, no. 630.—Barrows, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 159 
(monogr.). 
[Brachyrhamphus] kittlitzi Cours, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 344. 
Brachyrhamphus kittlitzi Ripaway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 211 (Cat. 
N. Am. Birds, no. 756); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 756.—Covss, Check 
List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 867. Neuson, Cruise ‘Corwin’ in 1881 (1883), 117 
(Unalaska).—Patmin, ‘Vega’-Exped., 1887, 393 (Sitka, Alaska; Pittlekaj, 
e. Siberia; crit.). 
Uria antiqua (not Alca antiqua Gmelin) AupuBoN, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 100, pl. 
402, fig. 2; Birds Am., 8°° ed., vii, 1844, 263, part, pl. 470, fig. 2 (supposed 
young). 
[Brachyrhamphus] antiquus ReicHENBaAcH, Natatores, 1850, pl. 6, fig. 2713. 
@ One specimen, from Alaska. 
5 Almost certainly an error; probably some part of northern Pacific Ocean. 
