CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 23 



30a. Californian Guillemot. Murre, 



Uria troile caHforrdca (Bryant) Ridgw. 1884. 



An abundant resident along the entire Aleutian chain and the 

 mainland coast of the Pacific. Elliott found them to occur on 

 the Prybiloff Islands in small numbers ; birds and eggs have been 

 taken at Sitka and Kadiak Island. (Nelson.) Observed as far 

 north as St. Matthew Island. {Turner^ Abundant in Cook's 

 Inlet, Alaska. {Dr. Bean.) The same distribution as the Pigeon 

 Guillemot but not nearly so abundant ; appears to be more com- 

 mon, however, at Victoria, B.C., in the winter months. {Fanning 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Eggs. — One &g^., said to be collected on the west coast of Van- 

 couver Island, received from Mr. John Tolmie ; also five others 

 taken at Fort Wrangle, Alaska, by Dr. Otto Klotz in July 1889. 



'»!. Brunnich's Murre. Thick-billed Guillemot. 



Uria lomvia (Linn.) Bryant. 1861. 



Abundant in the Bay of Fundy during winter. {Chamberlain^ 

 Quite common along the coast of Newfoundland. {Reeks.) 

 Doubtless the commonest bird on the Greenland coast, but said 

 not to breed farther south than Lat. 64° N. {Arct. Man) Plenti- 

 ful on the eastern and southern shores of Labrador, where it 

 resides and breeds. {Packard.) Breeds abundantly on Great 

 Bird Rock, Magdalen Islands. (Bishop.) This Guillemot fre- 

 quents the most remote Arctic American seas that have been 

 visited, Greenland and Hudson Bay, and goes south in winter. 

 {Richardson.) From Resolution Island to Grinnell Bay and 

 Frobisher Strait they are common, even as far as the mouth of 

 Cumberland Gulf, but apparently rare in its waters. There are 

 large breeding places about capes Mercy and Walshingham ; the 

 largest " rookery " being on the Padlic Islands, in Exeter Sound. 

 {Ku?nelin.) 



A bird that has become plentiful the last few years in places 

 between Kingston and Brockville. They usually appear in the 

 month of December, and as they are very tame and come almost 

 up to a boat, they are readily slaughtered. Two men killed forty 

 in a short time near Rockport, Ont., in December 1896, just before 

 the River St. Lawrence froze up. None of the common species 

 have been observed in this locality. This bird was seen about 



