26 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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

 North Pacific from Cape Lisburne, Alaska, south to Santa Barbara 

 Islands, California, and from Bering Strait to Japan; accidental in 

 Maine and Greenland. 



Genus FRATERCULA Brisson. 



Fratercula Brisson, Orn., VI, 1760, 81. Type, by monotypy, [Frater- 

 cula] fratercula Brisson = Alca arctica LinnjEus. 



Fratercula drctica (Linn^us). 



Range. — Coasts and islands of the North Atlantic and Arctic 

 oceans. 



a. Fratercula arctica arctica (Linn^us). Puffin. [13.] 



Alca arctica Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 130. (Sweden.) 



Ramge. — Coasts and islands of North Atlantic. Breeds in North America 

 from Ungava south to Bay of Fundy and Maine; winters south to Massa- 

 chusetts, casually to Long Island and Delaware Bay. 



b. Fratercula arctica naumanni Norton. Large-billed Puffin. [13a.] 



Fratercula arctica naumanni Norton, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 II, May, 1901, 144. (Based on Mormon gladalis of Naumann, Isis, 

 1821, 782, pi. vii, fig. 2.) 



Range. — Coasts and islands of Arctic Ocean, from northern and western 

 Greenland to Nova Zembla. 



Fratercula comicuUta (Naumann). Homed PuflBn. [14.] 



Mormon corniculata Naumann, Isis, IX, 1821, 782, pi. vii, figs. 3, 4. 

 (Kamchatka.) 



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

 North Pacific. Breeds from Cape Lisburne south on both sides of 

 Bering Strait to Aleutian and Near islands and Glacier Bay; winters 

 from the Aleutians south to Kuril and Queen Charlotte islands. 



