NO. 32 BIRDS OF ALEUTIAN ISLANDS BEXT 3 



II. Birds Noted in the Aleutian Islands in June, 1911 



GAVIA IMMER 



Loon 



Loons were noted at various islands, generally flying high in the 



air and too far off to identify. One, positively identified as this 



species, was seen flying across the bay at Adak Island on June 26, 



and one at Attu Island on June 23. 



GAVIA PACIFICA 



Pacific Loon 



GAVIA STELLATA 



Red-throated Loon 

 Small loons were seen flying in the distance on several of the islands 

 where both of these species are found, though the Red-throated Loon 

 is probably the more common one. I do not seem to have any positive 

 records of any of these being definitely identified and none were shot. 

 One or both of these species were undoubtedly breeding on nearly 

 all of the larger islands where there were suitable ponds. 



LUNDA CIRRHATA 



Tufted Puffin 

 Immense numbers of this Puffin and a few of the following species 

 were seen in the water as we were entering Unimak Pass, where they 

 were scattered about over a large area, mostly singly, or in pairs or 

 small groups. There were thousands of them dotting the water in 

 all directions as far as we could see. We saw a few Tufted Puffins 

 about nearly all the islands among which they were generally dis- 

 tributed, but we found only one breeding colony of any size, on a 

 small rocky islet in Nazan Bay, Atka Island. A cloud of these 

 Puffins and a few Horned Puffins were seen flying about the islet, 

 but they all flew off when we landed. We had seen them entering 

 and leaving some inaccessible crevices in the steep rocky cliffs where 

 they were probably nesting. They also had burrows in the soil on 

 the top of the rock, but they had not laid in the holes we dug out. 

 This was on June 15, but evidently most of them had not yet laid. 



FRATERCULA CORNICULATA 



Horned Puffin 



This species was not so abundant as the preceding, but was seen 



quite regularly in small numbers at nearly all of the islands and was 



breeding throughout its range. At Atka Island, on June 15 we found 



a small breeding colony on one of the rocky islands m Nazan Bay 



