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KORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[NO. 27. 



Cepphus mandti (Licht.). Maiidt Guillemot. 



This species is stated by J. C. Koss to be the only water bird which 

 remains in the Arctic throughout the winter. It is extremely abun- 

 dant about the large islands of the Arctic Sea to the northward of 

 Mackenzie, having been noted at A^arious points west to Melville 

 Island. It has usually been recorded as Uria grylle. 



Parry was the first to record this guillemot from the region, noting 

 one at Melville Island. August 8, ISSO.'^ J. C. Ross recorded it as 

 abundant at Port Bowen;^ and later from Fury Point, February, 

 1833, and as breeding abundantly between Fury Point and Batty 

 Bay.^ Armstrong states that it was abundant about Beechey Island 

 in the summer of 1854.-^ AYalker records one taken in February, 1859, 

 at Bellot Strait.^ 



Uria lomvia (Limi.). Briinnich Murre. 



Under the name Uria hrunnichi'u J. C. Ross recorded the occur- 

 rence of this bird at Port Bowen, Prince Regent Inlet, where it 

 arrived in early June.'^ 



Alle alle (Linn.). Dovekie. 



Richardson describes a specimen killed in August near Melville 

 Island.^' The species is abundant in Baffin Bay, especially on the east 

 side, but is rare to the westward of that region. 



Stercorarius pomarinus (Temm.). Pomarine Jaeger. 



Published reports mdicate that this jaeger occurs nearly through- 

 out the region, but probably breeds only along the Arctic coast. 



Sabine reported this species from Melville Island and Prince Re- 

 gent Inlet : ^' and Ross recorded one from Fort Simpson.' Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway record specimens from Fort Resolution, Fort 

 Rae, Big Island, and Fort Simpson.' MacFarlane speaks of a pair 

 obtained by the Eskimo near the mouth of Anderson River, and of a 

 male shot on Franklin Bay, Juh' 11, 1865.'' A specimen collected by 

 Ross at Fort Simpson, October 16, 1860, and one by Lockhart at Fort 

 Resolution, are still in the Xational Museum. 



" Journal First Voyage, p. 239, 1821. 



^ Parry's Third Voyage, Appendix, p. 107, 1826. 



^ Appendix Koss's Second Voyage, p. xliv, 1835. 



^ Narrative Discovery Northwest Passage, p. 591, 1857. 



cproc. Roy. Soc. Dublin, III, p. 67, 1860. 



^ Parry's Third Voyage, Appendix, p. 106, 1826. 



9 Fauna Boreali-Americana, II, p. 479, 1831. 



Suppl. to Appendix Parry's First Voyage, p. ccvi, 1824. 

 ^ Can. Nat. and GeoL, VI, p. 443, 1861. 

 j Water Birds X. A., II, p. 333, 1884. 

 ^"^Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, p. 417, 1891. 



