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July 8, 1899, all proved to be the Pallas murre ( Uria lom- 

 via arra). A few other birds are known from the islands. 

 Two horned puffins (JFratercula corniculata} and a flock 

 of kittiwakes were seen by me in 1891; and Cantwell, in 

 May, 1884, reported puffins in great numbers, and saw also 

 numbers of harlequin ducks, gulls, and kittiwakes, and 

 found a dead albatross on the beach. 



Sea-lions. 



The only mammal known from Bogoslof is the northern 

 or Steller sea-lion (Eumetopias stelleri ) of which a large 

 colony has throughout the century regularly resorted to 

 the low ground on the southeast side of the old volcano. 

 Langsdorf, who visited Bogoslof in 1806, was told by the 

 native Aleuts at Unalaska that long before the upheaval 

 of the volcano (in 1796) there had stood near the same 

 place an isolated rock which from the time of their fore- 

 fathers had always been one of the greatest resorts of sea- 

 dogs and sea-lions. 



Kriukof, Agent of the Russian-American Fur Company 

 at Unalaska, told Kotzebue in 1817 that in 1804 a party of 

 native hunters visited Bogoslof for sea-lions; and Baranof 

 states that in 1814 (which date Grewingk insists is an 

 error for 1804) a landing was made at a low place where 

 a herd of these animals had hauled out on the rocks. 



In June, 1820, they were seen by Doctor Stein, in 1832 

 by Tebenkof, and in 1840 were reported as abundant by 

 Veniaminof. 



The eruption of New Bogoslof in 1883 is said to have 

 destroyed many sea-lions. Captain Hague, who visited 

 the islands on October 27 of that year, is quoted as stat- 

 ing that he saw many of the survivors which had been so 

 badly scalded that the hair had come off. 



Cantwell, who explored the island very thoroughly in 

 May, 1884, states : " Several herds of sea-lions were found 



