GENUS PHALERIS.
Phaleris. Temm. Man. Om. Vol. I I (1820.)tv“''v
SIMORHYNCHUS. MERREM.
103. PHALERIS KAMTSCHATIOUS.
Aloa K amtsohatioa. L epeoiiin. Nova Acta Petrop. XII. (1801.) p. 369. pi. 8.
I give a drawing o f the head of this species of the natural size. The bird may be described as follows: Entire upper parts
dark brown; under parts cinereous, becoming nearly white on the abdomen. At the base of the upper mandible, and on the neck, are
numerous white slender feathers, becoming quite long on the latter. Bill, orange red, feet broWn. Length, 71 inches;- wing, 41;
tail, 11 inches.
104. PHALERIS TETRACULA. Vol. H. Pláte LXVH.
| | g p ¡ § p ¡ ¡ ' CASSINH.
Sjmorhynchus Cassinii. Codes, P. A. N. Scien. (1868.) p. 45.
This bird was described as distinct by Coues, in his Monograph of the Alcid®. It is probably immature, and was procured August
3, 1866, at Ounimák Pass, Russian America. The following is the description:
H. rostro parvo, breve, valde compresso, longitudine vix altitudinem excedente, latitudine dimidi altitudinis; fere triangulare a spectu
laterale/ simplice, nec ullis additamentis coméis instructo/ culmine leviter declinado-convexo, rictu recto, carina fere recta, a scendente ■
supra nigro-plumbeus, verlice, alis caudaque nigerrimus/ subtus griseo-plumbeus, abdomine crissoque sensim albicantibus-; longitudo tota
corporis 7.75 (poll. Ang.); aim 4.2 5 / cauda 1.40/ tarsi .8 0 / digiti medii cum ungue 1.20/ rostri .40/ alt. 30., lat. 15, rictus 60.
106. PHALERIS PUSILLUS. . - ' ' Vol. H. Plate LXVm.
■ GENUS PTYCHORHAMPHUS.
Ptyckorlamphus. Brandt. Bull. Acad. Sc. St. Petersb. Vol. II. (1837). p . 347.
107. PTYCHORHAMPHUS ALEUTICUS. Vól. II. Plate LXIX.
GENUS OMBRIA.
Ombría. Eschscholtz Zool. Atlas IV. (1831). p . 3.
108. OMBRIA PSITTACULA. y 0i. n . Plate LXX.
GENUS BRACHYRHAMPHUS.
BracJiyrJiamphus. Brandt. Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. II. (1837). p . 345.
SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS BRANDT.
109. BRACHYRHAMPHUS TEMMINCKII. Vol. II. Plato LXXI.
APOBAPTON BRANDT.
110. BRACHYRAMPHUS WRANGLEII.
This bird having been figured by Audubon as the adult of B. Marmoralus (Uria Townsendii of his plate) it is unnecessary to publish
a representation of it in this work. Prom recent investigations mentioned by Dr. Coues in his monograph of the Alcidro, it seems that
there can be but little doubt that the heretofore considered adult of B. Marmoralus, is this species of Brandt, up to the present time
always a troublesome subject to American Ornithologists.
BRACHYRHAMPHUS HÏPOLEUCÜS. • Vol. II. Plate LXXII.
CRAVERI.
Uria* Craveri. Salvad. Descriz. Nuov. Spec. Mus. Torin. (1867.) p . 17.
A recently described bird, with the same habitat and general appearance o f B. Ifypoleucus. It is not at all unlikely that they may
prove to be the same when we obtain further information regarding this one. The drawing was made from a sketch sent by Dr.
Salvadori to Prof. Baird, to whom I am much indebted1 for the privilege o f cppying ,it for this work. The original description is
as follows :
“ Juv. ?— Uria minima, crassitie Merguli A l lb ; supra fusco-nigra, dorso ac alis nonnikil griseo-tinclis. Subtus alba/ rostro valde
elongate, subulate, nigro / tarais, postice nigris, antice viride-luieis, unguibus nigris."
■‘Long tot., 0.245'.; al., 0.125; caud., .0.018; rostri a riçtu, 0.037 ; tarsi, 0,022; dig. med. cum ungue, 0.024.
ANOBAPTON.
Bon. Cbmpt. Bend: Vol. .¡K ill. (1856;) p . 774.
113. BRACHYRHAMPHUS BRACHYPTERUS. •'
• 114.. * ' —. , KITTLITZII. Juv.?
Brandt. But). Acad. St. Petersb. Vol. H. (1837.) -p.. 346.
These two species described by Brandt) as. above cited, are unknown to American Ornithologists. They are stated to come from
Unalaschka and Kamtschatka respectively, and the only noticeable character is that the tarsus of B. Brachypterus is said to be longer
than the middle toe, a circumstance entirely at variance with all the members Of this family, none of whom have a middle toe shorter
than the tarsus.
In the foregoing pages are included all the birds which the scope of this work requited should be contained within it. I have
designated the species, good, bad or .indifferent, as they seemed to be in my judgment, never hastily, but always after careful and patient
investigation; in all cases desiring to accord full credit to my fellow-ornithologists. It is always unpleasant to be obliged to differ from
those who are working in the same field, and striving for the same end; but my duty would not have been fully accomplished had I
not honestly expressed the conclusions, which my researches led me to believe were correct, although at times they might conflict
with those promulgated by others.
As the furor specificus still rages, and o u r boundaries do not appear to have yet attained their farthest verge, future volumes will
probably be required to make known the discoveries in the Avi-fauna of our c o u n try ; and when another shall arise to portray the forms
and relate the habits of the new members of the feathered tribes inhabiting our limits, no one will be more ready to accord to him a
hearty greeting and give such assistance as can be rendered, than he who now lays down his pen and pencil, having finished his work;
albeit it may not, in some degree, be altogether such as he could wish it might have been.