192 ALASKA. 



ever during the whole year. It is a most gregarious duck ; sol- 

 itary pairs uever stiay away from the flock. The females seem 

 to outnumber the males, two to one." 



511. Soiiiatei'ia stelleri, (Pall.) Newt.— 5feZ/ers Eider. 

 Anas stelleri, Pall. Spic. Zool., vi. 35, pi. 5, (1769.) 

 Clangula stelleri, Boie. Isis, 564, (1822.) 

 Fuligula stelleri, Bp. Syn. B. U. S. 394, (1828.) 

 Macropus stelleri, Nutt. Mau., ii, 451^ (1834.) 

 Fohjsticta stelleri, Eyton. Hist. Brit. B., 79, (1836.)— Bd. .B. N. 



A., 801, (1858.) 

 Eniconetta stelleri. Gray. List Gen. of B., 95, (1840.) 

 Harelda stelleri, Keys, et Bias. Wirb. Europ., 230, (1840.) 

 Heniconetta stelleri, Agass. lud. Univ., 178, (1846.) 

 Somateria stelleri, Newt. P. Z. S., 400, (1861.)— Coues. Key, 291, 



(1872.) 

 Anas dispar, Sparrm. Mus. Carls., pi. vii, viii, (1786.) 

 Fuligula dispar, Steph. Sbaw's Gen. Zool., xii, 206, (1824.) 

 Stelleria dispar, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. and N. A., 57, (1838.) 

 Anas occidua, Bonn, et Vieill. Ency. Met., i, 130, (1823.) 



''A few of these ducks were observed, but not secured, on 

 Saint PauPs, in tne spring of 1872. Two were shot at the East 

 Point, Saint George's, the same year. It is only a straggler." 



As several experienced ornithologists have stated, Steller's 

 duck is a true eider in all essential respects. Various views of 

 its systematic position which have been entertained are indi- 

 cated by the foregoing synonymy. 



An egg of Steller's duck, in the Smithsonian, from the Peters- 

 burg Museum, through H. E. Dresser, esq., collected in 

 Kamtschatka, measures 2.20 x 1.60, and is like that of the com- 

 mon eider in shape, color, and texture of shell. 



534. Oraciiliis bicristatus, (Pall.) Gray. Fied-faced Cormorant. 



'' Oreel." 

 ? Red-faced Cormorcmt or Shag, Pennant & Latham. (Arct. Zool., 



11, 584 ; Gen. Syn. vi, 601. Kamtschatka.) 

 f Felecanus urile, G^r. Syst. Nat., 1, 575, (1788.)— Lath. lud. 



Orn. ii, 888, (1790.) 

 Phalacrocorax bicristatus. Pall. Zoog. Rosso-As., ii, 301, pi. 75, 



f. 2, (1811.) 

 Graculus bicristatus, Gray. Gen. of Birds. Hand-list, iii, 128, 



No. 11129.— Bd. Tr. Chic. Acad., 1, 321, pi. '3'S, (1869.)— Dall. 



& Bann. Ibid., 302.— Coues. Key, 304, (1872.) 

 Urile bicristatus, Bp , partim. Comp. A\\, 11, 175, (1851.) 

 " Fhalacrocorax pelagicus, Pall." Zoog. Rcsso-As., ii, 303, pi. 



76, (1811.) 



The cormorant, which .swarms on the Prybilov Islands, ap- 

 pears to be unquestionably the bird of Pallas, which is most 



