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for two days, July 24 and 25, in 1914. Alfred M. Bailey and Kiisseli 

 W. Hendee collected on St. Lawrence late in June and early in July, 

 1921, and Hendee again visited it in August, 1922. They found a 

 resident teacher on the island, Mr. Dupertius, of the Bureau of Edu- 

 cation, who was interested in birds and who had made some ob- 

 servations there. Except for a few fragments given by Bailey, none 

 of Dupertius's notes have been published. 



F. L. Jaques passed close by St. Lawrence in 1928 and noted three 

 sj^ecies of birds offshore. 



Finally, in the summer of 1930, Henry B. Collins, jr., spent sev- 

 eral months on the island from June 19 to October 22, and collected 

 birds as time permitted. 



The present paper is merely a descriptive list of the birds known 

 to occur on St. Lawrence Island. Undoubtedly other species will 

 have to be added as more collecting is done there, especially among 

 the small land birds and the shorebirds. Mr. Collins tells me that 

 he saw some hawks there but was unable to procure a specimen. No 

 published record of a hawk from St. Lawrence Island is known to 

 me, so that is another U)vm lo be added in the future. 



Inasmuch as Harry b. Swarth. of Ihe California Academy of 

 Sciences, is working on a comprehensive paper on the Bering Sea 

 avifauna, I have not attempted any interpretative w^ork on any of 

 the distributional problems and am restricting this paper to the 

 status of a reference list. 



The present list contains 61 species of birds. Of these the follow- 

 ing eight have not been recorded from the island before : 



Gavia arctica pacifica. 

 Oavia stellata. 

 Mareca penelope. 

 Limosa lapponica bancri. 



Lams argentatus vegae. 

 Cepphus grpllG mandti. 

 Cnciilus canorus 'bakeri. 

 Nyctea nyctea. 



In addition to the 61 species now definitely known from St. Law- 

 rence Island, three others have been stated by Nelson ^ to occur there 

 " undoubtedly^" These birds, for which definite records are lacking, 

 are Nettion carolinsnse^ the green-winged teal, Phaeopus hudsonictis, 

 the Hudsonian curlew, and Plsohia halrdi, Baird's sandpiper. 



The reference to the original description of each species is given, 

 and this is folloAved by a complete synonymy as far as the literature 

 of St. Lawrence Island is concerned. All the birds collected by 

 Collins, as well as those obtained by the Harriman Expedition, are 

 in the United States National Museum (including the collection of 

 the Biological Survey). 



The specimens without data, listed in this paper, were purchased 

 by Mr. Collins from various Eskimos at Gambell. 



* Nelson, E. W., Birds of Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean. Cruise of the revenue- 

 steamer Conviu in Alaslja and tlie NW. Arctic Ocean in 1881, pp. 88, 90, 97, 1883. 



