ABT. 12 BIRDS OF ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND rRIEDMAN:S" 29 



Turner listed the horned puffin as a breeding bird on St. Lawrence 

 Island. Bailey found it " very abundant at King and St. Lawrence 

 Islands on June 27 and 28, doubtless then beginning to lay. * * * 

 They were even more abundant at St. Lawrence Island along the 

 cliffs on the north side, and in the colonies on the southwest (north- 

 west?) near Gambell village." 



Collins collected six adults of both sexes at Gambell in August 

 and September. 



LUNDA CmRHATA (Pallas) 



TiF-iED Puffin 



Alca cirrhnta Pallas, Spicilegia zoologica, etc., vol. 1, fasc. v, p. 7, pis. i, v. 



figs. 1-3. 1769 (iu mail inter Kamtschatcam et Americam Archipelagumque 



Kuriluiit = Bering Sea). 

 Lunda cirrhaia, Tukneb, Coutr, Nat Hist. Alaska, uo. 11, p. 117, 1886. — 



Baiutt, Condor, vol. 27, p. 62, 1925. 



Turner first recorded the tufted puffin from St. Lawrence Island. 

 Bailey found it fairly common there, as did Collins, who collected 

 four adults at Gambell late in June and in August. 



Family CUCULIDAE, Cuckoos 



CUCULUS CANORUS BAKERI Hartert 



Cuciilus canorus lakeri Harteet, Die Vogel der paliiarktisciien Fauna, vol. 2, 



p. 948, 1912 (Shillong, Khasia Hills). 

 Cuculas cGiwrus bakeri, Friedman n and Riley, Auk, vol. 48, p. 269, 1931. — 



A. 0. U. check-list of North American birds, ed. 4, p. 159, 1931. 



An adult female, obtained by Collins at Gambell on July 1, 1930, 

 is the only record, not only for St. Lawrence Island but for the entire 

 Nearctic realm, for this dark form of the European cuckoo. 



Family STRIGIDAE, Owls 



NYCTEA NYGTEA (Linnaeus) 



Snowy Owl 



Strix 'Nycteu Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 93. 1758 (in Europa 

 et America septentrionali= Sweden), 



Collins obtained two males at Gambell, one on September 18 and 

 the other on October 2, The latter is almost immaculately white 

 underneath and has only a very few brownish marks on the tertials 

 and rectrices; the former specimen is more abundantly marked with 

 dark brovra. 



The snowy owl does not seem to have been recorded from St. 

 Lawrence Island before. 



