North-west coast of America.
Cerorhyncha occidentalis, Bonap. Syn. p. 428.
Western cerorhyncha, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 538.
Horned-billed Guillemot, Ceratorhyncha occidentalis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 104.
480. 3. Uria Brunnichii, Sabine. Large-billed Guillemot.
Plate CCCXLV. Male.
Bill stout, black; feet dusky, tinged with red; general colour of plumage greyish-black on the upper parts; sides of the head and throat tinged with brown; lower fore part of neck, the breast, abdomen, edges of wings and tips of secondaries white; sides streaked with greyish-black. In winter the sides of the head and neck, the fore part of the latter, with the rest of the lower parts white, the sides streaked with greyish-black, and a line of the same behind the eye.
Male, 181/2, 30.
Occasionally procured in Maine. Not very rare off the coast of Nova Scotia. Breeds from Hudson's Bay to the Arctic Seas.
Uria Brunnichii, Bonap. Syn. p. 424.
Uria Brunnichii, Brunnich's Guillemot, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 477.
Large-billed Guillemot, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 529.
Large-billed Guillemot, Uria Brunnichii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 336.
481. 4. Uria Troile, Linn. Foolish Guillemot. Murre.