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ALCA BKUENNICHI. 



(BRUNNICH'S GUILLEMOT.) 



Uria troille, Briinn. Orn. Bor. p. 27 (1764). 



Uria svarbag, Briinn. Orn. Bor. p. 27 (1764). 



1. Alca pica, Fabric. Faun. Groenl. p. 79 (1780, nee Linn.). 



Una brunnichii, Sabine, Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 538 (1818). 



Uria francsii, Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 588 (1818). 



Uriapolaris, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 984 (1831). 



Una unicolor, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 985 (1831). 



Uria arra, Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 92 (1840, nee Pall.). 



Catarractes lomvia, Bryant, Mon. Gen. Catarr. in Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1861, p. 9, 



figs. 1-4. 

 Uria lomvia, Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1861, p. 75. 

 Alca brunnichii (Sab.), Malmgr. Ofv. K. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1863, p. 111. 

 Alca arra, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Urinatores, p. 16 (1867, nee Pall.). 

 Lomvia svarbag, Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 1868, p. 80, ex Briinn. 



Dickschnabel-Lumme, German ; Groote Zeekoet, Dutch ; BrunnicKs Teiste, Danish ; Akpa, 



Greenlandic ; Stutnefia, Icelandic ; Lomvi, Spidsnaibbet Alice, Norwegian ; Brunnichs- 



Grisla, Swedish. 



Figure notabiles. 

 Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 69 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 52 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. 



taf. 333 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 80. figs. 3, 4 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 398 ; Schlegel, 



Vog. Nederl. pi. 265 ; Audub. Orn. Biogr. pi. 345. 



Ad. ptil. esst. capite et collo toto nigris, pileo et collo postico vix viridi nitentibus, capitis et colli lateribus, 

 mento et gula. ferrugineo-fusco tinctis : corpore supra, alis et cauda nigris, secundariis albo terminatis : 

 corpore subtus albo : rostro nigro, marginibus maxillae ad basin flavo-albis : pedibus supra flavido- 

 olivaceis, subtus plumbeo-nigris : hide fusca. 



Ad. ptil. Mem. gula, et mento albis nee nigris, et corpore supra sordidiore. 



Adult Male in summer (Greenland). Crown, nape, and upper parts generally deep glossy black, on the bead 

 and neck with a faint greenish gloss ; wings and tail black, the secondaries tipped with white, forming 

 a white bar across the wing ; chin, throat, and sides of the head black, tinged with deep reddish brown ; 

 rest of the underparts pure white; bill stout, blackish iu colour, the ridge of the upper mandible white 

 with a greenish yellow tinge; legs and feet black with a leaden tinge; the upper part of the toes and 

 the tarsus tinged with deep yellowish olive; iris dark brown. Total length about 16-5-17 inches, 

 gape 2*25, wing 8-5, tad 22, tarsus 1'5. 



Adult Female. Resembles the male. 



