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If nee Island, which Henclee visited, and he reported a number of 

 this species * * * which were nesting, or preparing to nest, 

 among the gigantic boulders * * *. i visited a fine colony of 

 birds near the reindeer-herding camps of Sivunga, on the north 

 shore of St. Lawrence Island, about GO miles from Gambell. * * * 

 this species of auklet seemed to prefer burrows near the top of the 

 cliff where they could not be molested. The Paroquet Auklets were 

 quite tame and often peered inquisitively at us, even after the murres, 

 cormorants, and other auklets had taken wing." 



Collins collected a female at Gambell on July 1. The bird is in 

 fresh plumage and is fully adult. 



AETHIA CRISTATELLA (Pallas) 



Crested Auki-btt 



Aha cristatella Pallas, Spicilegia zoologica, etc., vol. 1, fasc. 5, p. 18, pis. iii, 

 V, figs. 7-9, 1769 (ultimariiin versus Japoniam iusularuin inaxime incola et 

 circa insulam Matmey=Yesso, Japan, to Kamchatka). 



Shno-rhijncJius cristatellus, Neison, Report upon natural history collections 

 made in Alaska, pp. 41, 42, 1887. 



AetJiia cristatella, Townsend, Bird-Lore, vol, 15, p. 134, 1913. — Brooks, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 59, p. 370, 1915. — Hersky, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 

 vol. 66, no. 2, p. 9, 1916.— Bailet, Condor, vol. 27, p. 64, 1925. 



Nelson found the crested auklet extremely numerous among the ice 

 off St. Lawrence Island. Brooks found it common at Cape Chibu- 

 kak on June 3; Hersey noted its abundance near Gambell, July 24 

 and 25. Bailey writes that on " St. Lawrence Island, these birds 

 were present with the other auklets in both the colonies * * *^ 

 The summits of the cliffs were lined with a confused jumble of 

 boulders among which this species and the least auklets made their 

 homes." 



Collins collected 10 specimens, all at Gambell. The six with 

 dates were taken late in June and in July and August. One unsexed 

 specimen has the bill as in the winter condition, that is, it has shed 

 the nasal and suprarictal cuirass. 



AETHIA PUSILLA (Pallas) 



Least Auklet 



Uria pusilla Pallas, Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, vol. 2, p. 373, 1811 (circa 



Camtschatcam). 

 Cerorhinca occidentalis?, Vigors, The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage to 



the Pacific and Behring's Strait. Ornithology, p. 34, 1839. 

 Slinorhynchus pusillus, Nelson, Report upon natural history collections made 



in Alaska, p. 43, 1887. 



