ART. 12 BIRDS OF ST. LAWEENCE ISLAND FRIEDMANN 9 



Family PROCELLARIIDAE, Shearwaters, Fulmars 



FULMARUS GLACIALIS RODGERSI Cassin 



Rodgek's Fulmak 



Fulmarus Rodgersii Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862 (Oct. 



28), p. 326 (South Indian Ocean=North Pacific). 

 Fulmarus glacialis rodyersi. Nelson, Birds of Bering Sea, etc., Cruise of the 



Cortcin, p. 112, 1883 ; Ileport upon natural history collections made in 



Alaska, p. 62, 1887. — A, O. U. check-list of North American birds, ed. 4, 



p. 12, 1931. 

 Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii, Habtert, Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna, 



vol. 2, p. 1438, 1920. 

 Fulmarus glacialis glupischa, Brooks, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 59, pp. 368, 



369, 1915. 

 Fulmarus rodgersi, Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 121, p. 46, 1922. 



Nelson saw this fulmar in abundance off St, Lawrence Island. 

 Brooks noted quite a number during the last week in May, while 

 crossing Bering Sea from Cape Zhipanov, Kamchatka, to St. Law- 

 rence Island. According to Hartert and Bent, this bird breeds on 

 St. Lawrence Island. 



Family HYDROBATIDAE, Small Petrels 



OCEANODROMA FURCATA (Gmelin) 



FOEK-TAILED PetEEL 



Procellaria ftircata Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. ii. p. 561, 1789 (based 

 on the Fork-tail Petrel, Pennant, Arctic zoology, vol. 2, p. 535: In glacie 

 maris Americam et Asiam interfluentis=" among the ice between Asia and 

 America," Pennant). 



Oceanodroma fureata, Nelson, Report upon natural history collections made in 

 Alaska, p. 64, 1887.— Godman, Monograph of the petrels, p. 37, 1907-1910. 



This petrel figures in the present list solely on the basis of Nelson's 

 statement that during " the cruise of the Corwin^ in 1881, these 

 petrels were seen on several occasions in Bering Straits and about 

 St. Lawrence Island and in Plover Bay, Siberia." 



Family PHALACROCORACIDAE, Cormorants 



PHALACROCORAX PELAGICUS PELAGICUS Pallas 



Pelagic Cormorant 



Phalacrocorax pclagicus Pall^vs, Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, vol. 2, p. 303, 

 pi. 76, 1811 (maris Camtschatici orientalis et Americanorum insularum 

 incola= Aleutian Islands). 



Phalacrocorax pclagicus pelngicus, Brooks, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 59, 

 p. 397, 1915.— Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 107, p. 275, 1919.— Bailey, Condor, 

 vol. 27, p. 167, 1925.— A. O. U. check-list of North American birds, ed. 4, 

 p. 24, 1931. 



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