28 PROCEEDINGS OF THE \\TI<>\ \l. MUSEUM. vol.38. 



A second paper dealing with the habits of the more common 

 Kamchatka]] birds was published in The Auk, vol. 24, 1907, pp. 



278-280. 



I have adhered to the classification given in the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union check list, in spite of the fact that I consider it 

 decidedly out of date, for the reason t hat, as this paper will be of 

 most interest to American ornithologists, an arrangement familiar 

 to them will have, in so far as they are concerned, certain advantages 

 and will be much more convenient to use. Had this paper included 

 only extra American species, I should have adopted the classification 

 of Prof. Hans Gadow, as emended by subsequent authors, as I did 

 in my papers on West Indian birds. 



Before joining the Albatross I made a thorough study of the sea 

 birds of the north Pacific, especially in regard to the most signifi- 

 cant and striking differential characters, so that I might be able to 

 identify them with certainty. Observations were ma.de constantly 

 with a good pair of marine binoculars while on shipboard. Previ- 

 ous experience with the land birds of both the nearctic and palsB- 

 arctic regions in the held made the work on shore comparatively 

 easy, so far as determination of species was concerned. 



The vernacular names of American birds are, of course, those of 

 the check list published by the American Ornithologists' Union. 

 Dr. Leonhard Stejneger's various papers on Japanese birds, See- 

 bohni's Birds of the Japanese Empire, and other standard works 

 have been consulted for appropriate names forpurely Asiatic species, 

 while to the English names of Kamchatkan and Kurilian birds 1 

 have added the local Russian and native names, taken from Doctor 

 Stejneger's works on the birds of Kamchatka and the Commander 

 Islands and on the birds of the Kuril Islands. 



Order PYGOPODES. 



Suborder PODICIPEDES. 

 Family P( >I)I< I PI DM. 



^CHMOPHORUS OCCIDENTALS (Lawrence). 

 WESTERN GREBE. 



This grebe was common in San Francisco Bay on t ho day we left, 

 and we also found it common in the more open parts of Puget Sound. 



COLYMBUS AURITUS Linnaeus. 

 HORNED GREBE. 



Rather common in Puget Sound, especially before reaching Port 

 Townsend. In going up the Sound to Tacoma sea birds were very 



abundant until we wore off Port Townsend, when their numbers 

 rapidly diminished, and from then on, except for gulls and certain 

 ducks, we saw comparatively few. 



