URIA CARBO. 



Kurile Guillemot. 



Cepphus Carlo, Pall. Zoog., p. 350. t. 79. 



Uria Carlo, Brandt, Bull, de 1' Acad. Sc. Imp. St. Petersb. vol. ii. 1837 -Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. iii. 

 p. 645, Carlo, sp. 3. 



The rocky coast of the great Peninsula of Kamtschatka, the Okotsk and Behring's Seas are the native 

 habitat of this species of Guillemot, which may be regarded as the representative there of the Uria Grylle 

 of Europe and America, and where it doubtless performs the same offices in the economy of nature, and 

 exhibits precisely similar habits. It is an extremely rare bird in the collections of Europe, which is solely 

 attributable to the circumstance of its being an inhabitant of such remote and little-frequented localities as 

 above-mentioned. It was first made known to science by the great traveller and naturalist Pallas, who states 

 that it is only found in the Eastern seas, that it is very plentiful about the Aleutian Islands, and especially on 

 the rocks of Oonalaska, and that it migrates in the spring to the Kurile Islands, which stretch across from 

 Kamtschatka to Japan. 



This species is altogether a larger and more robust bird than the Uria Grylle, and, moreover, differs from 

 it considerably in the colouring of the face, as shown in the accompanying Plate, the eye being surrounded 

 by a large circle of pure white, presenting a striking contrast to the sombre hue of the general plumage. 



I am indebted to Dr. Hartlaub and the other directors of the Museum at Bremen for the loan of a fine 

 specimen of this bird, which with the greatest liberality was transmitted to London to enable me to give a 

 figure of it in the " Birds of Asia". May I hope that similar favours will be accorded me by others who 

 possess examples of the rare species described by Pallas and other Russian travellers, and of which so little 

 is at present known ? Such attentions will be duly appreciated and suitably acknowledged. 



An irregular spot on either side of the base of the upper inaudible, a second at the base of either side of 

 the under mandible, the chin, and a large patch surrounding the eye and passing some distance down the 

 side of the neck, white ; the remainder of the plumage sooty black ; bill black ; legs and feet red ; nails black ; 

 irides red. 



The figures are of the natural size. 



