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Seale wrote that " off St. Lawrence Island July 1 murres were 

 far more abundant than any other siDecies of bird." 



Collins obtained a male on June 1, a female on August 6 and 

 another on August 10, and still another on September 4. All were 

 collected at Gambell. All are adults. 



CEPPHUS GRYLLE MANDTI (Mandt) 



Mandt's Guillemot 



Uria mandtii Lieut., Mandt, Observationes in liistoriam naturalem et anatom- 

 iam comparatam in itiuere Groenlandico factae, p. 30, 1822 (Spitzbergen). 



Collins collected a young male at Gambell, on November 23, 1930. 

 It is in fairly fresh plumage. This is the only St. Lawrence record 

 I know of. 



CEPPHUS COLUMBA Pallas 



PIGEX3N Guillemot 



Cepphus Columha Pallas, Zoographia Rosso-Asiatiea, vol. 2, p. 348, 1811 (in 

 oceano arctico pariterque circa Camtschatcam et in omni freto inter Sibi- 

 riam et Americam= Bering Sea). 



Cepphus columha, Bailett, Condor, vol. 27, p. 66, 1925. 



Bailey found the pigeon guillemot to be abundant on St. Lawrence 

 Island, nesting along the cliffs near Sevunga and below Gambell. It 

 is strange that Nelson, Brooks, and others overlooked this bird if it is 

 really abundant. 



Collins collected an adult male on July 14 and another, both in 

 breeding plumage, on August 16 and a j^oung bird on October 11, all 

 at Gambell. The August bird is very much abraded. 



CYCLORRHYNCHUS PSITTACULA (Pallas) 



Paroquet Auklet 



Alca psittac-ula Pallas, Spieilegia zoologica, etc., vol. 1, fasc. 5, p. 13, pis. ii, v, 



figs. 4-6, 1769 (insulas partim versus laponiam partim versus Americam 



septentrionalem sparsus=Kamchatka). 

 Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus, Nelson, Report upon natural history collections 



made in Alaska, pp. 40, 41, 1887. 

 Phalaris psittacula, Hersey, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 66, no. 2, p. 9, 1916. — 



RiDGWAY, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 50, vol. 8, p. 765, 1919.— Bailey, Condor, 



vol. 27, p. 63, 1925. 



Nelson found this peculiar auklet abundant on St. Lawrence 

 Island. Hersey noted that this species appeared to be less numerous 

 than the crested auklet or the least auklet. 



Bailey writes that there " is a large nesting colony of sea birds 

 below Gambell village on the southwest (northwest) side of St. Law- 



