. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 510 THE DIVING BlUUS — PYUOPODES. Fhaleris pygmoens. THE WHISKEBED i UK. Alcapygmnn, Gmki,. S. N. I. ii. 1788, .IS.'i (— young; based on Pygmy Auk, Penn. Arct. Zool. no. 431). SiiiKii-hymhiis pygmaus, Bkaxdt, Mel. Zool. vii. 1869, 228. — Uinow. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 211 ; Norn. N. Am. W. 1831, no. 749. — C'ouks, 2''. (.'heck List, 1882, no. 8G0. Aloi. Kiualschitlica, Lki'Kciiis, Nova Acta Putioi). Xll. 1801, 309, pi. 8 (^ atlull). Pluilirisctimlschatiai, , Bull. Ac. St. IVtcrsb. II. 1337
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 510 THE DIVING BlUUS — PYUOPODES. Fhaleris pygmoens. THE WHISKEBED i UK. Alcapygmnn, Gmki,. S. N. I. ii. 1788, .IS.'i (— young; based on Pygmy Auk, Penn. Arct. Zool. no. 431). SiiiKii-hymhiis pygmaus, Bkaxdt, Mel. Zool. vii. 1869, 228. — Uinow. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 211 ; Norn. N. Am. W. 1831, no. 749. — C'ouks, 2''. (.'heck List, 1882, no. 8G0. Aloi. Kiualschitlica, Lki'Kciiis, Nova Acta Putioi). Xll. 1801, 309, pi. 8 (^ atlull). Pluilirisctimlschatiai, , Bull. Ac. St. IVtcrsb. II. 1337, 347. — Cassin, in Uaird's 15. N. Am. 18,18, 908. — lUiiii), Cat. N. Am. 15. ;.9, no. 721. Simofhyiii-lnis einiilin-haticm, Siiii,i:(i. Mus. Prin. 1867, livr. ix. p. 25. — CouEs, Pr. Ac Nat. Sci. Philail. 1868, 41 ; Key, 1872, 342 ; t'li.'ck List, 1873, no. 623. Uria mystiicca, ,. Zoo^'. l!osso-As. II. 1826, 372, pi. 89. Pkaleris cristate!la, PI. Col. 200 (not of authors). Mormon siiperciliosum, Licht. Vimz. Doiibl. 1823, 89. .Simorliynchits Cussini, Coi', Pr. Philail. AuaJ. 1868, 44 (Ounimak Pass, Aleutian Islands ; = young). Hah. Coa-sts and islands of the North Pacific, from throuyh the Aleutian chain to Kanitschatka. Adult $, nuptial plwnwgc (SSfil?, Atkha Islanil, Aleutian chain, June, 1879 ; L. M. Turneu): Above, glossy blackish slate, appearin},' more plumbeous in certain lights, especially on the rump ; wings and tail dull brownish black. Lower pints sooty plumbeous, darker anteriorly, and nearly white posteriorly, the crissum being ((uite white ; entire sides and flanks unifonn deep, slightly smoky, plumbeous, like the breast. Ih'ad ornamented by an erect, gracefully recurved crest of narrow plumes of dull black, about inches long (when straightened out); anterior half of the lores covered with a triangular patch of pure white pointed , this patch bifurcating posteriorly, and continued in one br
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