NO. 32 BIRDS OF ALEUTIAN ISLANDS — BENT 23 



This species is abundant in Kamchatka, where it is one of the 

 most attractive birds and an exquisite songster. 



Dr. Stejneger records the capture of a single straggler on Bering 

 Island, January 29, 1883; it is therefore a rarity even in the Com- 

 mander Islands. The capture of our specimen, which is now in the 

 National Museum collection, extends its known range several hundred 

 miles eastward. 



III. Birds Noted in Bering Sea in July, 191 i 



On our return to Unalaska on July i, we were informed by the 

 Commander of the Bering Sea fleet that the Revenue Cutter Service 

 could do nothing more for us, as they needed the Tahoma on the seal 

 island patrol. We therefore made other arrangements for transpor- 

 tation during the remainder of the season. We left Mr. Wetmore 

 at Unalaska to work in that vicinity for a while and to secure passage 

 homeward along the south side of the Alaska peninsula. The results 

 of his work belong to the Biological Survey. The remainder of our 

 party secured passage to Nome on the gasolene schooner Polar Bear, 

 ow^ned and commanded by Mr. Louis L. Lane, of Seattle. We sailed 

 from Unalaska on July 3 and reached Nome July 11, having spent 

 one day on Bogoslof volcano, half a day on St. Paul Island, half a 

 day on Walrus and a day at St. Matthew and Hall islands. 



No thorough work could be done on such a hurried trip, but we 

 obtained a fairly good impression of the avifauna of these interesting 

 islands and took a large series of photographs. The following notes 

 on the species observed may be worth recording, though I realize 

 that they contain very little new matter. 



LUNDA CIRRHATA 



Tufted Puffin 



A few Tufted Puffins were breeding on Bogoslof Island, making 

 their burrows in the sandy bluffs above the beaches or in the sand 

 and gravel slopes about Castle Rock among the Murres. Their bur- 

 rows were rather shallow and were generally profusely lined with 

 feathers and straws. 



The soft soil on the bare top of Walrus Island was so honeycombed 

 with the burrows of this Puffin that it was difficult to walk without 

 breaking into them ; very few Puffins were seen, however, until they 

 were dug out of their burrows when they would go scrambling off 

 towards the water in a frantic effort to fly. They were nesting here 

 also under the loose rocks on the stony beach among the Auklets. 



