ON BRACHYRAMPHUS PERDIX (PALL. ) AND ITS NEAREST ALLIES. 



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well described. The dimensions of tarsus and middle toe alone (the 

 former i i , or 12, lines, the latter 1 1 lines) as compared with the 

 corresponding measurements of B. marmoratus given by him, show 

 that the bird does not belong here. Besides, the tail is described as 

 dusky, the basal half of remiges and the under wing-coverts as pure 

 white ; the temporal feathers have fine hair-like white shaft points ; 

 the bill is light brown with dark culmen and tip, etc. etc.; the sides 

 of the head down to the middle ear-coverts, morover, are dusky, 

 and the dusky color of the hind neck is not interrupted by a 

 white band. 



U.S.Nat. 



Museum 



No. 



Collector 

 and No. 



Sex 

 and 

 age 



Locality 



Date 



Wing 



<4M 



h 



X = 



tilV 



V) 



u 



h 



. 

 2 * 



JS 



•o-S 



7*479 



Nelson 18 



$ ad 



Unalashka, Alaska 



May 26, '77 



i?i 



U 



n-5 



17 



26 



92186 



Mc Kay 



ad 



Alaska 



Summer 



129 



?i 



11-5 



17 



26 



9218$ 



Mc Kay 



ad 



Alaska 



Summer 



128 



n 



— 



16 



27 



92184 



McKayn^ 



$ ad 



Point Etolin, Alaska 



April 1, '8j 



M? 



n 



n-5 



16 



27 



106099 



Woolfe 



— 



Cape Lisbourne, « 



May '85 



i?7 



32 



II 



— 



— 



78990 



Turner 194 



— 



Unalashka, Alaska 



Dec. '78 



i?i 



?i 



II 



— 



— 



2. BRACHYRAMPHUS PERDIX (Pall.) 



1826. — Cepphus perdix Pallas, Zoogr. Ross. As., II, p. 3 5 1 

 pl. 1 LXXX. » 



1 874. — ? Uria sp. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1 874, p. 1 66. 



1875. — ? Brachyrhamphus kiüüi^i Swinhoe, Ibis, 1875, p. 458 

 (nee Brandt, necFinsch). — Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 2 10. — 

 lid., Trans. Asiat. Soc. Japan, VIII, 1880, p. 180. — lld., ibid., X, 

 1882, p. 90. — Blakiston, Amend. List B. Japan, pp. 8, 31 (1884). — 



Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 174. 



1883. — Brachyrhamphus marmoratus Tac^anowski, Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, 1883, p. 345 (nee Lath.). — Stejneger, Orn. Explor. 

 Kamtsch. p. 314 (1885). — r Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 30. 



