BIRDS — ALCIDAE BRACIIYRAMPHUS KITTLITZI1. 
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Rather smaller than the preceding, and in adult plumage readily distinguished hy its crest of 
long elevated feathers. We have in the present collection young birds only, all of which are 
from Washington Territory. Adult specimens in the National Museum are from Japan. 
In addition to the preceding three species of this genus, of which numerous specimens are 
now before us, three other species are described by Mr. Brandt in his very valuable Monograph 
of the Alcidae, in the Bulletin of the Academy of St. Petersburg, II, p. 345, (1837.) Never 
having seen either of those species, we can only transcribe the descriptions by the distinguished 
author just mentioned. According to Bonaparte, they belong to Apobapton. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No 
Collected 
b y - 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Remarks. 
8095 
5987 
9911 
10677 
10696 
'7 
9 
Northwest Coast Am . 
Port Gamble, W. T .. 
Shoal water hay 
March 1G 
Nov.25,'51 
May, 1S54 
Feb. 1854 
Com. Perry, U S.N. 
113 
10.75 
10.50 
18.25 
18.25 
Bill, flesh color ; 
irids, black; feet, 
pale blue 
Simoda, Japan 
Yedo bay, Japan 
Wm. Heine 
....do.... 
BE ACH YE AMPHUS WBANGELII, Brandt. 
Brachyramphus wrangelii, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersburg, II, 1837, 344. 
Sp. Ch. — " Rostrum capitis dimidii circiter longitudino. Caput supra, nucha et dorsum e nigricante grisea. Alae et cauda 
nigrae. Reliquae partes, nec non stria longitudinahs supra alam albae. Tarsi digito medio breviores. Longitudino a rostri apice 
ad caudae apicom, 9|". Patria Insulae Aleuticae." 
Bill about half the length of the head. Head above, neck behind, and back, blackish gray ; wings and tail black ; other parts 
and a stripe on the wing white. Tarsus shorter than the middle toe. Length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, 9h 
inches. Inhabits the Aleutian Islands. 
BE ACH YEAMPHUS BE ACHYPTEBUS, Brandt. 
Brachyramphm brachypterus, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersburg, II, 1837, 344. 
" Una braclnjptera, Kittl. MSS." — Brandt, as above. 
Sp. Ch. — " Supra cinerea, alis caudaque nigricantibus. Collum subtus et in lateribus, pectus et abdomen alba. Rostrum 
capitis dimidii circiter longitudino. Tarsi digito medio longiores. Longitudino a rostri apice ad caudae apicem 9". Patria 
Unalaschka " 
Above cinereous ; wings and tail blackish ; neck beneath and on its sides, breast, and abdomen white. Bill about half the 
length of the head ; tarsus longer than the middle toe ; length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, 9 inches. Inhabits 
Unalaschka. 
BE ACH YE AMPHUS KITTLITZII, Brandt. 
Brachyramphus kiltlitzii, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersburg, II, 1837, 344. 
Sp. Ch. — "Supra cinerea nigricante et pallidc e fusco-flavescento undulata et submaculata. Subtus alba, sub-fusceseente 
tenuissime lavata, nigro et quidem in pectorc frequentius undulata. Alae e cinerascente et fusco nigrae. Rostrum brevissimum 
capitis longitudinus tertiam partem circiter adaequans. Tarsi digito medio breviores. Longitudo a rostri apice ad caudae 
apicem 9". Patria Kamtschatka." 
