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taken at Saint Michael’s. The predominance of arcticus probably holds good for all the Bering 
Sea localities. 
COLYMBUS SEPLENTRIONALIS Linn. 
(177.) ReD-THROATED DIVER. 
This bird is present in about equal numbers with the black-throated species, and is extremely 
familiar, its loud note and peculiar habits, like that of the other Loons, rendering it well known 
to any one who becomes familiar with the marshes of the North. It nests abundantly all along 
the coast from the Peninsula of Aliaska to Kotzebue Sound, extending across the sea to the 
Siberian shore, but is not known from the islands of this sea, although it undoubtedly occurs 
there. 
ALCIDA). AUKS. 
FRATERCULA CORNICULALA (Haum.) Gray. 
(178.) HORNED PUFFIN. 
This is one of the most common birds found in Bering Sea. It nests abundantly all along the 
Aleutian chain and upon all the rocky islets of this sea, as well as almost every rocky cape which 
projects along the coast line. It was seen by us in small numbers off Cape Serdze Kamen on 
June 29, 1881, and a few were noted at Hast Cape the first of July. At Herald Island a single 
specimen was seen, and in the vicinity of Cape Thompson and Cape Lisburne, on the American 
shore, a few were seen, but they were not abundant. Puffin Island, a small rocky islet in 
Escholtz Bay, Kotzebue Sound, is literally alive with these birds, which cover the rocks as 
they perch along the slope of the rocky shore. While visiting this islet a bird was seen coming in 
from the sea, carrying four sticklebacks in its mouth. The fish were placed crosswise in the bill, 
and the bird looked very odd as it came swiftly along with the fish so held. It flew directly to a 
crevice in the rocks and disappeared. While walking over the island the growling and grunting 
noises made by the birds is distinctly heard, and the entire ground appears to be alive with 
them. The representative of this bird in the North Atlantic, the Large-billed Puffin, breeds in 
small numbers about the northeast end of Spitzbergen and on Nova Zemlya, which, with the 
record from Herald Island, forms the northernmost data we posesss concerning their distribution. 
LUNDA CIRRHATA Pall. 
(179.) TUFTED PUFFIN. 
These birds are very common all along the Aleutian chain, and thence north to Bering Strait. 
They are, however, much less abundant in nearly every place than their relative, the Horned 
Puffin, which has the same distribution. A few of the present species were seen at Cape 
Thompson, on the Alaskan coast of the Arctic, July 19, but they were far more scarce than the 
other species. They were also seen off Cape Serdze Kamen the last of June, and again at Hast 
Cape the first of July. The same proportion was found to hold in Kotzebue Sound, so it is 
evident that this bird is a more. southern species than its relative. 
PHALERIS PSITTACULA (Pall.) Temm. 
(180.). PARROT-BILLED AUK. 
These odd birds are very common in Bering Sea, from the Aleutian Islands north, breeding in 
great abundance upon the fur-seal group and all the other islands of this sea. They also swarm 
by thousands about the Diomedes and other islands of Bering Strait, besides along the Siberian 
shore, where, at Plover Bay, we tound them in the greatest abundance. They were also seen off 
Cape Serdze Kamen on June 29, 1881. It rarely extends its range beyond the Straits, however. 
On August 26, while on an excursion to the head of Plover Bay, we secured quite a number of 
these birds, and in every case found them gorged with the small crustaceans which swarmed in 
