ABT. 12 BIRDS OF ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND FRIEDMANN 25 



Collins obtained four adults and one young of this species, all at 

 Gambell, in July and August (two of the specimens are undated). 



The July adult is in very fresh plumage; the two taken in August 

 are somewhat worn. The abrasion on the primaries is of interest in 

 that the white tips wear off more quickly laterally than terminally, 

 leaving the feathers with a narrow white terminal bar from which 

 protrudes, distally, a slender white shaft with a few white barbs on 

 either side. Finally this protruding part also wears off. One of 

 the adults (undated) has the outer greater upper primary coverts 

 tipped with white ; the others have no white on these feathers. The 

 young bird is in fresh plumage (undated). 



STERNA PARADISEA Brunnich 



Aectic Tern 



Btema Paradisaea Brunnich, Ornithologia Borealis, p. 46, 1764 (E Chris- 



tiaus6e=Christians6e Island, Denmark). 

 Sterna paradisaea, Nelson, Report upon natural history collections made in 



Alaska, p. 58, 1887.— Brooks, Bull. Mus. C!omp. Zool., vol. 59, p. 372, 1915.— 



Bailey, Condor, vol. 27, p. 164, 1925. 



Nelson writes that the arctic tern " occurs on St. Lawrence and 

 St. Matthew's Islands, where it breeds." 



Brooks found a colony of some 25 pairs breeding " on a sand spit 

 in the large lagoon on the south side of St. Lawrence Island in June, 

 1913. Several sets of eggs taken June 25 showed that incubation 

 had started." Bailey saw several daily during the latter part of 

 June and early part of July. 



Collins collected a female at Gambell on August 21. It is in an 

 advanced stage of molt and appears to be a young bird coming into 

 adult plumage. 



Family ALCIDAE, Auks, Murres, Auklets 



URIA LOMVIA AREA (Pallas) 



Pallas' s IMurke 



Cepphus Ana Pallas, Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, vol. 2, p. 347, 1811 (in oceano 



orientali circa Camtschatcam). 

 Uria lomvia arra, Nelson, Report upon natural history collections made in 



Alaska, p. 45, 1887. — Seale, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 130, 



1898.— Hersey, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 66, no. 2, p. 10, 1916.~Bailey, 



Condor, vol. 27, p. 66, 1925. 



Nelson saw large numbers of these murres off St. Lawrence Island. 

 Hersey found the species breeding on the cliffs behind Gambell, and 

 Bailey records that Hendee found them extremely numerous on the 

 island during the first week in July. They were then just beginning 

 to nest, and ravens and kittiwakes were seen flying off with their 

 eggs. 



