ON BRACHYRAMPHUS PERDIX (PALL.) AND ITS NEAREST ALLIES. 2 1 I 



b l ) Summer plumage: upper surface blackish with dull 

 tawny and buffy cross-bars. 



2. B. perdix. 



b 2 ) Summer plumage : upper surface blackish with cross- 

 bars of a rusty umber. 



3. B. marmoratus. 



1. BRACHYRAMPHUS BREVIROSTRIS (Vig.) 



1828. — Uria brevirostris Vigors, Zool. Journ., IV, 1828 

 {p. 357). — Id., Zool. Beechey's Voy. Orn., p. 32 (1839). — Brachy- 

 ramphus b. Ridgway, Water B. N. Am., II, p. 499 (1884). 



1037. — Brachyramphus kittlit^ii Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb., 

 II, p. 346 (nee Finseh; necSwinh., Blakist., Seeb.) — Id., Mel. Biol., 

 VII, i869,p. 213. — Ridgway, Water B. N. Am., II, p. 501(1884).— 

 Stejneger, Orn. Expl. Kamtsch., p. 3 14 (1885). — A. O. U. Check L., 

 p. 81, n. 24. (1886). 



1839. — Uria antiqua Audubon, Orn. Biogr., V, p. 100 (part: 

 young), (pl. CCCCII, flg. 2) (nee Gmel.), — Id. Synops., p. 349 

 (part) (1839.) — W., Birdsof Am., VII, p. 263 (part) pl. CCCCLXX, 

 fig. 2 (1844). 



Hab. — Aleutian Islands and coast of Alaska northwards to 

 Cape Lisbourne. Kuprianof sent a speeimen to the St. Petersbourg 

 Museum from Sitka ; the failure of later collectors to observe it 

 there makes it probable that the speeimen, like so many others sent 

 rom the same locality, was originally collected somewhere eise. It 

 seems to be a mistake when it has been reported that the type spe- 

 eimens of this species came from Kamtschatka (cf. Stejneger, Orn. 

 Expl. Kamtsch. p. 314), for it is probably to these birds Kittlitz 

 refers in his «Denkwürdigkeiten», I, p. 244, as having been brought 

 to him from Bering's Strait by lieutenant Abaleschew (cf. also Lütke, 

 Voy. aut. du Monde, III, 1836, p. 324). Unless the Biaehyramphus 

 which Mr. Taczanowski has left undetermined (Bull. Soc. Zool. 



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