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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mb1848" data-source="post: 2410393" data-attributes="member: 31036">Sequence Variation in the Guillemot (Alcidae: Cepphus) MitochondrialControl Region and its Nuclear Homolog.<a href="http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/1/61.full.pdf" target="_blank">http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/1/61.full.pdf</a> . Copies a map of Storer 1952.Geographic variation of the Pigeon Guillemots Storer 1950.  (available online) Barely mentions snowi.Notes on the Kuril Islands By Captain Henry James Snow. 1897The following is a list of the birds frequenting the Kurils. It is probably most complete as regards the sea-fowl.The numbers refer to Blakiston and Pryer's " Catalogue of the Birds of Japan," published in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan in 1882. The birds with no numbers against them are not in B. and P.'s list. (8) Brachyriutmphus antiquus, grey-headed auk. Found all along the Kurils; always seen in small flocks of eight or nine.(9) Brachyrhamphus kittlitzi, Kittlitz guillemot.(10) Uria carbo, sooty guillemot.(10|) Uria columba, pigeon guillemot. This bird is very common on all the islands. Lays one speckled egg under rocks and boulders on the beaches, about the middle of June.(*) Uria marmorata, marbled guillemot. Is not common. A very shy bird, and somewhat difficult to obtain, as it usually dives at the flash of a gun, and will, if wounded, remain under water and die there.(11) Uria troile, common guillemot.(12) Uria brilnnichi, Brunnich's guillemot. Plentiful all alonj the islands. These birds arrive about the end of April, and leave towards the end of September. About June 8 they commence to lay, but their eggs are not plentiful until the middle of the month. The single egg is laid on the bare ledges of cliffs and rocks. The eggs are pyriform in shape, and exceedingly fancifully coloured, the grounds being green, blue, yellow, white, grey, etc., with brown and black specks and blotches. No two eggs appear to be alike. They are particularly good eating, the flavour being not unlike the eggs of the plover.Birds of the Kuril islands Stejneger 1899 .<a href="http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/bitstream/10088/13506/1/USNMP-21_1144_1898.pdf" target="_blank">http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/bitstream/10088/13506/1/USNMP-21_1144_1898.pdf</a> .Talks more about snowi than in the OD in the 1897 Auk.<a href="http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v014n02/p0200-p0201.pdf" target="_blank">http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v014n02/p0200-p0201.pdf</a> .Introgressive hybridization can be a cause of speciation also?</blockquote>

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