NATURAL-HISTORY RECORDS OF PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



By G. Dallas Hanna. 



It seems to be highly desirable that there shall be published in a 

 readily accessible place a resume of the scientific work which has 

 been done in connection with the biologjy of the Pribilof Islands. 

 This group of islands has been more intensively studied than any 

 other similar area in Alaska and will continue, doubtless, to attract 

 attention in the future. Records of publications on the various 

 groups of plants and animals are often widely scattered, and em- 

 ployees of the Bureau stationed on the islands have little opportunity 

 to search for them. 



The last bibliographj'' of the subject was published in 1915 in a 

 report by Osgood, Preble, and Parker.^ This list w^as known to be 

 incomplete at the time of its preparation and was intended to cover 

 the subject "' fur seals" only. Yet it is very valuable to anyone who 

 has occasion to study the literature of the Pribilof Islands. 



The following list is the result of note taking through several suc- 

 cessive years and is intended to cover the general natural history of 

 the islands in so far as I have the records. It also is knoAvn to be 

 incomplete, but it takes up the most important work which has been 

 done since the appearance of the above-mentioned bibliography. In 

 some cases papers published prior to 1914 are included because of 

 their interest to island students. 



It should be explained that in addition to the following titles many 

 Fribilof Islands records are contained in general publications which 

 are not listed. For instance, Dall ^ has mentioned a large number of 

 marine mollusks from the Pribilofs in his work on Northwest Coast 

 Shells. The same is true of birds in Ridgway's " Birds of North and 

 Middle America," ^ Hamilton's " Coleoptera of Alaska," •* Evermann 

 and Goldsborough's "Fishes of Alaska,"^ and others. A new work 

 is expected from the National Herbarium soon and it will contain 

 full records of Alaska plants, including those from the Pribilof 

 Islands. 



The report of Alaska Fisheries and Fur Industries in 1918 (Bu- 

 reau of Fisheries Document No. 872, pp. 105-107) contained a check 

 list of birds of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, with the names of per- 

 sons first recording the species from the islands. This list contained 

 names of 129 species and subspecies. It has been increased by six, 

 the first three added in 1920, the fourth restored on evidence col- 



> The Fur Seals and Other Life of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, in 1914. Bulletin, Bureau 

 of Fisheries, Vol. XXXIV, 1!I14 (lOlC), pp. 140-107. Washington, 101.5. 

 ^U. S. National Museum, Hulletin 112. 19LM. 

 3U. S. National Museum, P.ullctin 50. 



* Transactions. American Entoiiiolotrical Society, Vol. XXI, pp. 1-38. 1894. 

 B Bulletin, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVI, pp. 219-360. 1906. 



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