. 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. riG. 231. Temminok's Guillemot. Adult. Fig. 232. Temmmok'a Guillemot. Young. Young (and adult each winter?), uncrested, bill black; above nearly uniform cinereous, below entirely white except along the sides: this is Brachyrhamphus hypoleucus Xantus ; Coues, I. c. 64; Elliot, pi. 72; Uria craveri Salvadori ; Coues, I. c. 66; Elliot, Introd. No.
. 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. riG. 231. Temminok's Guillemot. Adult. Fig. 232. Temmmok'a Guillemot. Young. Young (and adult each winter?), uncrested, bill black; above nearly uniform cinereous, below entirely white except along the sides: this is Brachyrhamphus hypoleucus Xantus ; Coues, I. c. 64; Elliot, pi. 72; Uria craveri Salvadori ; Coues, I. c. 66; Elliot, Introd. No. 172, with fig. of head. Whole Pacific Coast to Cape St. Lucas, abundant. B. tem- mincJcii Cass, in Bd., 916; iS. lourmizusume Coues, I. c. wurmizusume. ^ 326. Genus BRACHYEHAMPHITS Brandt. *jif* Tarsi little compressed, entirely reticulate, obviously shorter than the middle toe without its claw ; bill shorter than head, very slender and acute, with inflected . tomia ; nostrils minute, overlaid by feathers. No crest. ** M MarUed Guillemot, or Murrelet. Adult in summer blackish, singularly variegated with chestnut or rusty, and white; bill black; adult in winter plumlseous, the feathers with darker centres, the scapulars and entire under parts, excepting some dark touches on the flanks, pure white. Length 9-10; wing 5 ; tail 1^; tarsus and bill f or less. Pacific Coast to Gala. Uria toivnsendii Aud., vii, 278, pi. 475 (winter and summer, not old and young as supposed) ; Uria marmorata Nutt., ii, 525 ; B. marmoratus Cass. in Bd., 915; Coues, I. c. 61; B. lorangeli Brandt; Cass, in Bd., 917; Coues, I. c. 63 (winter, not difiierent species as supposed) . marmoratus. V I Kittlitz's Murrelet. Described as diflfering from the foregoing by its much shorter bill (only 1 along gape), deeper at base, and lateral tail feathers white, black-striped lengthwise. N. Pacific. Unknown to me ; no recognized specimens in American collections. B. hittlitzii Brandt, 1837, 346 ; 1869, 213; Cass, in B
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