THE BIRDS COLLECTED AND OBSERVED DURING THE 

 CRUISE OF THE UNITED STATES FISHERIES STEAMER 

 "ALBATROSS" IN THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN, AND IN 

 THE BERING, OKHOTSK, JAPAN, AND EASTERN SEAS, 

 FROM APRIL TO DECEMBER, 1906. 



By Austin Hobart Clark, 

 Assistant Curator, Division of Marine Invertebrates, U.S. National Museum. 



The 1906 cruise of the United States Fisheries steamer Albatross 

 had for its especial object the investigation of the tish and iisheries 

 of the Japanese seas, where the ship spent most of the time. The 

 journey out was made by way of the Aleutian Islands, at several of 

 which we stopped, Petropaulski, Kamchatka, and the Kuril islands. 

 We returned by way of Honolulu. As the purpose of the expedition 

 was the investigation of fish and marine invertebrates, and the ship 

 was usually occupied in work offshore, my opportunities for collect- 

 ing birds were rather limited, especially as my time was largely taken 

 up by my duties in connection with the marine work, as the repre- 

 sent at ive of the Bureau of Fisheries. I brought back about 180 

 skins, chiefly from the Aleutian and Kuril islands and from Kam- 

 chatka. In addition to these many dead birds were examined and 

 identified, but not preserved, mainly on account of their bulk, which 

 would have necessitated devoting more time to them than I could 

 space. I kept very full notes at all times during the trip, and these, 

 together with the specimens, form the basis of the present paper. 



During the trip of the Albatross I was afforded every possible 

 facility for ornithological work by the commanding officer, the late 

 Commander Leroy M. Garrett, V. S. Navy, and after his untimely 

 loss, in a prolonged spell of exceptionally heavy weather between 

 Yokohama and Honolulu, by his successor, Lieut. Arthur J. Hep- 

 burn, U. S. Navy. 



We left Sausalito, near San Francisco, on May :;. 1906, :it 4.40 

 p. m., and sailed up the coast of California and Oregon to Pugel 

 Sound, arriving at Tacoma at 8 p. m. on the evening of the 9th. We 

 left early the next morning for Dockton, Washington, where we went 

 into dry dock. T spent that afternoon, the next day, and 1 he follow- 

 ing morning ashore hunting birds. We left at 1 p. in. on the 11th, 

 going through theColvos Passage to the Pugel Sound Navy Yard at 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. 38— No. 1727. 



