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mouth of the Columbia River in large flocks, and was common in 

 Puget Sound as far as Port Townsend, where the numbers fell off 

 and the bird gradually disappeared. 



PHALACROCORAX PELAGICUS PELAGICUS Pallas. 

 PELAGIC CORMORANT. MALINKIJ TJRIL. 



This bird was very common about the Aleutians, being first seen 

 in Unalera Pass near Unalaska, and from then on commonly when- 

 ever we were near land. It was especially abundant about Agattu 

 and off Semichi, and we found it at Copper and Bering islands, fre- 

 quently along the coast of Kamchatka, and down the Kurds as far 

 as Simushir, about the cliffs of which island a number were seen. 

 Probably they were breeding here, as in the stomach of a gull (Larus 

 schistisagus) I found two cormorant's eggs, possibly belonging to 

 this species. 



PHALACROCORAX URILE (Gmelin). 

 RED-FACED CORMORANT. BOLSCHOJ URIL. 



I only identified this species with certainty a few times; near 

 Agattu, near Bering Island, near Cape Lopatka, and once in the 

 northern Kurds, where a specimen flew across the bow of the ship 

 within a few feet of me. 



Order ANSERES. 



Family AXATID/K. 



Subfamily THK.RO-INJE. 



MERGUS AMERICANUS (Cassin). 



AMERICAN MERGANSER. 



I have one record for this species. A male was seen on May 26 on 

 a small pond near Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, and another, possibly 

 the same bird, was seen at the same place on the next day. A bird 

 probably of this species was seen on one of the lakes at Agattu. 



MERGUS MERGANSER MERGANSER (Linnaeus). 

 GOOSANDER. MERGANSER. BOLSCHOJ KRACHAL. TTTIPE. 



A pair of these birds was I'ound on a large pond near Milne Bay, 

 Simushir. 



MERGUS SERRATOR (Linnaeus). 

 RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. KRAKHAL. 



A small (lock of Jg-ed-breasted Mergansers was seen in the outer bay 

 at Unalaska on May 25. 



