1 G Så "i. 
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is to be found in the museum of Leyden?!), the other, which is 
supposed to come from Iceland, is in the British Museum.?) 
In addition to the two above-mentioned specimens, å black 
Uria has now and again been observed off Iceland or Greenland 
(the latest at Cumberland, Davis Straits, in 1877—78), though 
none of these has been preserved. 
After having investigated the descriptions in question as 
thoroughly as was possible without handling either of the exist- 
ing specimens, Dr. Stejneger at last comes to the conclusion that 
When looking over the references collected together above, one 
can hardly escape the impression, that they all refer to å really 
valid species and no individual variation, no melanism*. (l. c. 
p. 214). | 
Further facts concerning black Uriae from European and 
Greenland waters have, as far as is known, not appeared. In 
agreement with Dr. Stejneger's account, the form in question is 
represented in Baird, Brewer and Ridgway's great work on the 
Birds of North America (1894), as a separate species, Cepphus 
DMotzfeldi.> 

In November, 1894, I received from å correspondent, Hr. N. 
Hanson, a fresh specimen of å black Uria, shot on Averøen, in 
the neighbourhood of Christiansund,*) on the 16th of the same month. 
A similar specimen had already been observed in Feb. 1892, also 
in the neighbourhood of Christiansund: it is possible that the 
two are one and the same specimen. 
Schlegel, Revue Crit. des Ois. d'Europe, 1844, p. 106; Mus. dHist. 
Nat. Pays Bas. Urinatores, p. 20 (1867). 
Newton, The Ibis, 1865, p. 518 (Note). 
3) Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway ,The Water Birds of North America”, 
Vol. IT p. 497. (Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. Vol- 13). Bo- 
ston 1884. 
4) Å little south of the entrance to the great Trondhjem Fjord 
(Norway). 
