. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. ^ 323. Genus PTYCHOEHAMPHUS Brandt. â ' Aleutian Auk. Blackish-cinereous, paler below, white on breast and l)elly; no long feathers about head; bill conic, acute, about f the head, wrinkled at base, nostrils scaled; 9; wing 5; tarsus 1; bill |, | deep at base, i wide. Pacific Coast to L. Gala. Cass, in Bd., 910; Elliot, pi. 69 ; Coues, I. c. 52
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. ^ 323. Genus PTYCHOEHAMPHUS Brandt. â ' Aleutian Auk. Blackish-cinereous, paler below, white on breast and l)elly; no long feathers about head; bill conic, acute, about f the head, wrinkled at base, nostrils scaled; 9; wing 5; tarsus 1; bill |, | deep at base, i wide. Pacific Coast to L. Gala. Cass, in Bd., 910; Elliot, pi. 69 ; Coues, I. c. 52. Mergidus cassini Gambel aleuticus. 324. Genus MERGULUS Auctorum. Sea Dove, or Bovehie. Glossy blue-black, below from the breast (in winter, and in youn"-, from the bill) white; scapulars white-striped; secondaries white-tipped ; white speck over eye ; FIG. 229. -Sea Doye. i^jji ,j|_^^^^ g,^^,^.^^ ^i^^^^^^^ IwgxA. 8J ; wiug 1% ; tarsus f; bill ^, about \ deep or wide at base. N. Atlantic, abundant, S. in winter to New Jersey (to Florida, Maynard). Wils., ix, 94, pi. 74, f. 5; NuTT., ii, 531; Aud., vii, 257, pi. 469 ; Cass, in Bd., 918. alls. 325. Genus SYNTHLIBOEHAMPHUS Brandt. *s* Tarsi much compressed, broadly scutellate in front and on the sides, not shorter than middle toe without its claw; bill compressed, shorter than head or tarsus; nostrils broadly oval, reached by feathers. Length 9^-11 ; extent 16^-183^ ; wing 5-5J-; tail 1|; bill f-J ; tarsus 1. Head and neck black or blackish, with white stripe over eye and numerous others on nape and side of neck; upper parts and sides under the wings black or blackish-plumbeous ; other under parts white, from the throat in summer, from the bill in winter, and in j'oung birds. Black-tliroated Guillemot. Not crested. White superciliary stripe not running in advance of the e\'e. Bill stout, obtuse, at base ^ or more of the length of culmen, pale, culmeu aud base black. N. Pacific. Uria senicida Pall. Mergulus eirrhocejplialas
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