368 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Gavia adamsi (Gray). 

 yellow-billed loon. 



This species was quite comrnon at Humphrey Point during 1914, 

 Mr. Dixon preserving nine males and five females. At Demarcation 

 Point I took only two, for with the exception of three or four birds, 

 those I saw were on large ponds far back on the tundra or high in air 

 some distance from the coast. At Humphrey Point they were com- 

 mon by the shore. 



We found no evidence of their breeding near the coast, and the 

 Eskimo believe that they nest in large lakes on the other side of the 

 mountains. 



None were noted until early June, Mr. Dixon securing the first 

 specimen, a female, on June 3. 



Procellariidae. ' 



Oceanodroma furcata (Gmelin). 

 forked-tailed petrel. 



Fork-tailed Petrels were common in Bering Sea, May 27, 28, 29, 30, 

 31, 1913, from Cape Zhipanov, Kamchatka to St. Lawrence Island. 

 A pair taken at Copper Island, May 24 was purchased. 



PuFFiNUS tenuirostris (Temminck). 

 slender-billed shearwater. 



We did not observe this species but a male taken at Copper Island, 

 May 29, was purchased. 



Fulmarus glacialis glupischa Stejneger. 

 PACIFIC fulmar. 



Pacific Fulmars were first observed and taken about seventy miles 

 southeast of Seward, Alaska, on April 16, 1913. On April 18, they 

 were common in Shelikof Strait, Alaska, sailing gracefully about in a 

 tremendous gale that forced us to seek shelter at the Semidi Islands. 



