ORDER PYGOPODES. 25 



winters in the southern Canadian Provinces; casually south to Colo- 

 rado, Nebraska, Iowa, northern Ohio, and Long Island, N. Y. 



Gavia paciflca (Lawrence). Pacific Loon. [10.] 



Colymbus pacificus Lawrence, in Baird, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac, 

 IX, 1858, 889. (San Diego, Cal., and Puget Sound, Washington.) 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds from Point Barrow, 

 Banks Land, northern Mackenzie, and Melville Peninsula south to 

 base of Alaska Peninsula, Great Slave Lake, and central Keewatin; 

 winters along Pacific coast from southern British Columbia to Lower 

 California and Guadalupe Island; accidental in New Mexico. 



Gavia stellita (Pontoppidan). Red-throated Loon. [11.] 



Colymbus stellatus Pontoppidan, Danske Atlas, I, 1763, 621. (Based 

 on Colymbus maximus stellatus of Willughby.) 



Range. — Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. Breeds from 

 northern Alaska, Banks Land, EUesmere Land, and northern Green- 

 land south to Commander Islands, western Aleutian Islands, Glacier 

 Bay, southern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, central Quebec, New 

 Brunswick, and Newfoundland; winters from southern British Colum- 

 bia to southern California, and from Maine and the Great Lakes 

 to Florida; casual in interior to Montana, Missoiu-i, Nebraska, and 

 Arizona; breeds also throughout Arctic Europe and Asia, and winters 

 south to the Mediterranean and southern China. 



Family ALCID.S. Auks, Murhes, and Puffins. 



Subfamily FRATERCULINJE. Ptiffins. 



Genus LTJNDA Pallas. 



Lunda Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiatica, II, 1826 (1811 ?), 363. Type, by 

 subs, desig., AUa cirrhata Pallas (Gray, 1840). 



Lfinda cirrhata (Pallas). Tufted Puffin. [12.] 



Alca cirrhata Pallas, Spic. Zool., I, Fasc. v, 1769, 7, pi. i; pi. v, figs. 1-3. 

 (Kamchatka to Aleutian Islands.) 



