28 CHECK-LIST OF NOKTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Coasts and islands of western Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, 

 and North Pacific. Breeds from northwestern Alaska and northern 

 coast of eastern Siberia south to Aleutian Islands; winters from 

 the Aleutians south to Monterey Bay, California, and in Kuril Islands, 

 Japan. 



Genus .^THIA Dumont. 



JSthia "Mehb." Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. (revised ed.), I, 1816, Suppl., 

 71. Type, by monotypy, Alca cristateUa Pallas. 



Subgenus ATHIA. 



JEthia cristatilla (Pallas). Crested Auklet. [18.] 



Alca cristateUa Pallas, Spic. ZooL, I, Fasc. v, 1769, 18, pi. iii; pi. v, 

 figs. 7-9. (Yesso, Japan, to Kamchatka.) 



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 Range. — Coasts and islands of Bering Sea and North Pacific, from 



Bering Strait south to Kadiak Island and Japan. 



Subgenus ALCELLA Stone. 



Akella Stone, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 197. Type, by orig. desig., Alca 

 pygmoea Gmelin. 



.fflthia pygmaea (Gmelin). Whiskered Auklet. [19.] 



Alca pygmoea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 655. ("Bird Island, be- 

 tween Asia and America.") 



Range. — Aleutian Islands, and from Kamchatka to Japan. 



Subgenus CICEBONIA Reichenbach. 



Ciceronia Reichenbach, Syst. Avium, 1852, iii. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Phaleris nodirostra Bonaparte = IJria pusilla Pallas. 



.ffithia pusOIa (Pallas). Least Auklet. [20.] 



Uria pudUa Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiatica, II, 1826 (1811?), 373. 

 (Kamchatka.) 



