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ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 



Liisl of upecimens collected. 



Locality. 



Bering Island 



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* From tip of bill to tip of tail-feathers next to the middle pair + the length of the latter beyond the 

 others. 



No. 89113. — Iris light yellowish hazol. Bill bluish blacli with a broad, angulato band behind tlio 

 nail of a rosy flesh-color shaded with bluish toward the nail and on tho culmeu ; on tlio lowei' man- 

 dible the nail is more bluish and the rosy baud more orange. Feet light bluish white; joints darker 

 bluish gray; sole, welis, aud nails blackish. 



No. 92804. — Iris light hazel. Bill black with tto rosy baud fading into light flesh-color on the lower 

 mandible. Feet pure bluish white; joiuts dark bluish gray ; sole and webs blackish. Tips of closed 

 wing reach tips of shorter tail-feathers; toes, stretched backwards, reach end of longest whitf tail 

 feathers. Outer toe lougerthan middle one ; inner toe, without claw, reaches second joint of middle- 

 too. 



No. 98116.— Iris light yellowish hazol. Bill bluish gray, darker towards the tip ; nail blackish ; 

 naked skin of mental angle dirty flesh-color. Anterior side of tarsus, toe'j, and webs along the toes 

 bluish white ; posterior surface of tarsus, joints, webs, and under side of toes blackish. In the aviduct 

 was an egg 55""" long. Two largest eggs of the ovary measured 32 aud 25"""'. 



No. 92867. — Iris dark brown. Bill dark gray, with greenish tinge. Feet Ught bluish gray, with yel- 

 lowish tinge ; darker on tarsus and joints ; webs blackish. 



The ">SV(/7ra" is one of the commonest dncks on Bering Island, and 

 is a resident throughout the whole year. It breeds on all the lakes 

 and lakelets of the island. 



It also frequents the neighboring Copper Island, but no instance of 

 its having bred there was known by the natives. 



The eggs of a full clutch, consisting of six (No. 211)0, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 No. 21783), measure as follows: 54 by ST.S-"'", 51 by 39"'", 50 by 30.25'"% 

 53 by 38.5'""^, 51 by 37'"'", 53 by 34'"'". 



77. Eniconetta stelleri (Pall.). 



17m,— Anas Aelleri Pall., Spicil. ZooL, VI, p. 35.— 7d., Zoogr. Ross. As., II, p. 238 

 (1826).— MiDDEND., Sibir. Reise, II 2 (p. 234) {l8b'S).—PoJysticta s. Dall 

 and Bannist., Tr. Chicag, Acad., I, 1869, p. 999.— Dall, Avif. Aleut. Isl. 

 Uual., eastw., p. 6( 1873).— /ii, Avif. Aleut. Isl. west Uiial., p. 7 (1874).— Nel. 

 SON, Cruise Corwin, p. 99. — Somateria s. Taczan., Oru Fauu. Vost. Sibir., 

 p. 72 (1877).— /d.. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 48.— Id., ibid., 1883, p. 

 344. — Eniconetta s. Turner, Auk, 1885, p. 158. 



