656 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



"The Cinnamon Bear in the Tower appears to be of the same race as 

 this Yellow Bear."* 



Richardson, writing iu 1829, alludes to a Cinuamou Bear as follows : 



'' The Cinnamon Bear of the fur traders is considered by the Indians 

 to be an accidental variety of this si)ecies [U. americanus], and they are 

 borne out in this opinion by the quality of the fur, which is equally fine 

 with that of the Black Bear."t 



Audubon and Bachman, in their " Quadrupeds of North America," 

 make the following allusion to a Cinnamon Bear: 



" The Cinnamon Bear, so far as we have been able to ascertain, is never 

 found near the sea coast, nor even west of the Ohio Valley until you ap- 

 proach the Eocky Mountain chain, and it is apparently quite a different 

 animal,"! ^^^ again " sparingly- found in the fur countries west and 

 north of the Missouri, extending to the barren grounds of the North- 

 west." § 



Other Cinnamon Bears were described by Professor Baird in 1859, 

 from the coiiper mines of the Gila River, New Mexico. Regarding the 

 specimens which he had under observation, he says: "Although about 

 the size of the common black bear, Ursus americanus, or a little smaller, yet 

 four skulls of all ages before me, when comi^ared with a corresponding 

 series of seven of Ursits americanus, exhibit such characteristic differ- 

 ences as to authorize the conclnsion that the species is distinct." || In 

 spite of these remarks, however, he places an interrogation mark after 

 the name '"Ursus cinnamoneus.'''"\\ 



DESCRIPTION OF A TiEW PETREIi FROm AI>ASIiA. 



By ROBERT RIDGWAY, 



Curator, Department of Birds, United States National Museum. 



An interesting collection of birds lately received at the National 

 Museum from Mr. William J. Fisher, U. S. Tidal Observer at Saint 

 Paul, Kodiak Island, Alaska, contains a specimen of a very handsome 

 Petrel, which appears to be undescribed, and which, in honor of its dis- 

 coverer, I propose to name and describe as 



CEsTRELATA FiSHERi, sp, nov. Fisher's Petrel. 



Sp. CH. Adult $ (No. 89431, U. S. Nat. Mus.; collector's number, 51; 

 Saint Paul, Kodiak Island, Alaska, June 11, 1882; William J. Fisher, 



* Griffitli. Cuvier's Animal KiTigdom, II, 1827, pp. 228, 229. 



t Ric'linrdson. Fauna Borealis-Americaua, 1829, p. 15. 



t Audubon and Bachman. Quadrupeds of North America, III, 1854, pp. 120, 127. 



§1. c, p. 127. 



II Baird: Report U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, II, pi. ii, 1859, p. 29. 



1[See also Coues and Yarrow: U. S. Geog. Surveys W. of 100'^, V, Zoology, 1875, 

 pp. 66, 67. 



Hoffjian : Mammals of Grand River, Dakota. <Proc. Boston Society Natural His- 

 tory, XIX, 1876-77, p. 99. 



