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associating with it and of like habits. nothing was learned of their habits. 



Hydrochelidon nis^ra surinamensis. Anas boschas. 



BLACK TERN. MALLARD, 



Reported by Mr. Wm. J. Fisher, but not The Mallard nests on the island but 



met with by the writer. not very numerously. Their great breed- 



Diomedea albatrus. jng grounds being in the neighborhood of 



SHORT-TAILED ALBATROSS Illiamna Lake on the mainland further to 



A single male bird obtained in Shelikoff the north. A number stop for a while on 



Straits October the first 1893. Kadiak island during the fall migration 



Phalacrocorax urie and a notlcable feature of these birds is 



RED-FACED CORMORANT. the immense amount of fat that they carry. 



A common but not plentiful resident They are also extremely fishy in flavor, 



more numerous in the summer than winter Anas penelope. 



months. The nests of this species are WIDGEON, 



built on the face of a high bluff overhang- Not at all a common bird and not 



ing the sea; in most case in inaccessible known by the writer to breed on the is- 



places. The eggs, two in number are of a [and. 



very pale blue color and a rough lusterless Anas caroUnensis. 



surface, when blown sometimes drying GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 



out white. A few specimens of this species were 



Merganser americamis obtained;— All migrants and nothing 



MERGANSER. learned of their habits. 



This species arrive at the island about Spatula ciypeata. 



the same time as the Loons. They are SHOVELLER, 



not so plentifulas the next species but in Three specimens obtained during] the 



habits are similar. They nest along the spring migration. Can only be considered 



banks of rivers and lakes, building the a visitant upon the island, 



nests of reeds and rank grass. The eggs Dafila acuta. 



are laid in June and are of a cream color, PINTAIL, 



ten to thirteen in number. Four seen May 11, 1894. 



Merganser serrator. Aythya ?/iarila nearctica. 



RED-BREASTED MERGANSER AMERICAN SCAUP DUCK. 



In habits resembling the last species. -^"^ specimen obtained March 28, and 



Lophodytes cucu!Iatus. ^ '^''2^ ^^^"^ Seen May 19, 1894. 



• HOODED MERGANSER Glaucionetta dangula americana. 



A few of these birds resort to the island AMERICAN GOLDEN-EYE. 



to breed they may rightly be stvled a rare Reported by Mr. Wm. J. Fisher, but 



bird in this locality. No nests were taken "°^ ""^^ "^'^^ '"^ ^""^ '^"^^'■• 



and as but two or three birds were seen Bernard J. Bretherton. 



