658 WATER-BIRDS OF JAPAN. 



The Red-legged Kittiwake, B. hrevirostris, was also obtained by him on Bering Island, 

 but has not been collected in Japan. 



(s) This name is retained on the Jaiian list pending an absolute decision as tn 

 whether it is the young of D. albatrus. 



(t) Japan specimens only from the Kurils, consequently Mr. Stejneger's sub-specific 

 name for his Commander Islands birds has been adopted. 



(it) (i-) In Japan not farther north than Yezo. 



(w) In Japan specimens from the Kurils only. 



(x) This is the only Shearwater recorded from Kamtschatka. In Japan it has been 

 found only on the Middle Island. 



()/) The three Shearwaters here given as confined to the American coast, are all 

 southern species. 



It may be as well, perhaps, also to append hereto some few uotes re- 

 ferring to species not appearing in the second table, rendered necessary 

 by the progress of ornithological research. 



In the first place the Kazor-bill {Alca torda Linn.) of the Atlantic has 

 hitherto headed the Japan lists as " No. 1," but as it rests solely on the 

 authority of the " Fauna Japonica," and is otherwise unrecorded from 

 the Pacific, it is now omitted. 



No. 10. The Sooty Guillemot, while confined to the Asiatic side of the 

 Pacific, is unrepresented by a corresponding species on the American 

 coast, unless we consider Cepphus mandtii (Light.) of the Arctic regions, 

 found in Alaska, as taking its place, which is doubtfully included amoni; 

 the birds ot Kamtschatka. (See Stejneger's " Results," Bull. U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum, No. 20, 1885.) 



No. 14. The Grebes are poorly represented in Kamtschatka by G. au- 

 ritus and C. JiolbwlUi, which Mr. Stejneger considers only as occasional 

 stragglers at the Commander Islands. In Japan no specimens have 

 been obtained on the Kurils or other outlying islands. 



No. 21. An authentic specimen of Olor bewicld has been collected in 

 Japan by Mr. Jouy. Mr. Stejneger obtained a young Swan on Bering 

 Island which he has placed as the North American 0. columhianus (Ord) = 

 americanus Sharpless. 



No. 22. Mr. Stejneger remarks (Bull. U. S. National Museum, No. 29, 

 1885) : " The state of things in regard to the species of geese of Eastern 

 Asia is in a deplorable condition," So far as Japan is considered tlii^ 

 cannot be gainsaid. In the first place A. segetum was identified b; 

 Swinhoe (" Ibis," 1875, p. 45G), but it was always believed that thei. 

 was a larger form also in Japan, as well as in China, where Swinhoe in 

 eluded it in his " lievised Catalogue" (P..Z. S., 1871) as var. serrirostrb 

 Mr. Stejneger seems convinced that the two forms do exist, and attrili 

 utes specimens now in the United States National Museum collected b; 

 him at Bering Island to the larger, which he decides to be A. segiUm 

 middendorffi Severz. ( = A. grandis Midd.), although he hesitates to in- 

 clude Swinhoe's serrirostris. In the i)resent list, therefore, a number 

 has been iutrepolated as 22.}? to represent the larger form in Japan. 



No. 23 1 The Pink-footed Goose as an inhabitant of Japan rests only 

 on an identification made by Swinhoe (" Ibis," 1875, p. 45G), of a speci- 



