Painted

Unknown

Published

1932

Volume

1

Plate

24

Kittlitz Murrelet

Brachyramphus brevirostris

When Captain Kleinschmidt shot his first KITTLITZ MURRELET in Bering Sea ice, an Eskimo said, "Him lay egg 'way up in snow on mountain." I ridiculed the idea but later facts prove the statement correct. The two eggs in the Thayer museum are glaucous yellow with dark brown spots over entire surface.

BREEDING

RANGE

Aleutian Islands, east to Glacier Bay, Alaska.

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