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the mouth of the Aangan River. On October I this species was 

 very common about the southern end of the Kurils, on both the 

 inside and outside of the chain. 



From these meager notes one might infer that the Short-tailed 

 Albatross was rather rare in the north Pacific, but I believe rather 

 the contrary is the case. Unlike D. nigripes, this species is exceed- 

 ingly shy at sea, and under ordinary circumstances keeps at a very 

 considerable distance from ships, so that it stands much less chance 

 of being observed than that species. 



DIOMEDEA IMMUTABILIS Rothschild. 

 LAYSAN ALBATROSS. 



On November 12, two days after leaving Yokohama for Hono- 

 lulu, a white albatross was observed, apparently darker above than 

 D. albatrus; during the succeeding days it became more common 

 until we reached the island of Kaui, after which we did not meet 

 with it. Most probably the species was I), immutabilis of Laysan. 



Subfamily IHLJLIVI^RIN^K:. 



FULMARUS GLACIALIS GLUPISCHA Stejneger. 

 PACIFIC FULMAR. GLUPISCH. 



The Pacific Fulmar was first seen the day after leaving San Fran- 

 cisco, when a single individual was observed. The next day several 

 were seen; subsequently they became more and more common until 

 we were off the mouth of the Columbia River, where they were abun- 

 dant in flocks of sometimes as many as 40 or 50 individuals. After 

 entering Puget Sound no more were seen until we again reached the 

 open sea, where they were common and remained so until we were 

 near Unalaska, when their number fell off. Only a few were seen 

 about that island, and occasional ones in the different parts of Bering 

 Sea which we visited. Rather more were seen on Bower's Bank and 

 off Semisopochnoi than elsewhere. Except for three seen between 

 Agattu and Attu (off Semichi) none were observed until we left Attu 

 for Copper Island, when they reappeared. We found them very 

 common about the cliffs of Copper Island near the town, and they 

 were also rather common about Bering Island. They were numerous 

 along the Kamchatkan coast to Cape Lopatka, and abundant on the 

 cod banks in the Okhotsk Sea, where a hundred or more were observed 

 about the cod-fishing barkentine S. N. Castle, which was lying there 

 at anchor. Of all this large flock only two were in the white 

 plumage, the proportion of light to dark birds being very much less 

 on the Asiatic than on the American side of the north Pacific. This 

 fulmar was common in the Kurils, and we saw it, until the day before 

 reaching Hakodate. It was not observed about Simushir, however; 

 but at Milne Bay, where we anchored, there are no cliffs suitable 



