118 CRUISE OF STEAMER CORWIN IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN. 
The bird also occurs along both shores of Bering Sea in the greatest numbers wherever cliffs afford 
proper nesting sites. At Cape Serdze Kamen, northwest of Bering Strait, we found it in large 
numbers just off shore, and again at East Cape on the rocky faces of the cliffs, as well as upon 
the islands in the middle of the Straits. It was rather scarce, however, among the islands in 
Kotzebue Sound. On July 30, 1881, as we drew near Herald Island on the Corwin this bird 
became more and more abundant, circling about us or alighting in small parties and singly among 
loose blocks of ice, sometimes standing upon the ice or sitting upright near its edge. Flocks 
came swinging about us in circles, apparently filled with curiosity at the strange apparition 
breaking in upon their quiet. As we drew still nearer myriads of Guillemots and these birds, 
with large numbers of the Kittiwake Gull, came swarming down from the cliffs until the air was 
filled with their moving forms, and occasionally the awkward shape of a Cormorant was seen as it 
passed back and forth and then returned again to its home among the ledges. 
On two oceasions one of the Murres was seen perched upon the edge of an ice-cake a few 
yards in diameter and staring at us intently until the bow of the vessel struck the opposite sides 
of its support. when the bird would plump into the water with ridiculous haste. 
As we climbed the steep faces of the island many of them dropped off their perches here and 
there and cireled back and forth above our heads, uttering at the time a peculiar low growling 
note. The Guillemots had a fine piping note, which they also uttered during our ascent of the 
island. Both birds were extremely unsuspicious, and allowed us to pass within a few yards 
without showing any signs of fear. 
LOMVIA ARRA BRUNNICHI (Sch.) Ridgw. 
(192.) BRUNNICH’S GUILLEMO!. 
There is no record of this bird from Bering Sea, but it breeds on Spitzbergen and Nova 
Zemlya and islands of that region north to 80° at least. Nordenskiéld found half-grown young on 
the Preobrao Islands, August 24, during his voyage. It was also seen by him east of Cape 
Cheljuskin. 
This bird, like the Black Guillemot, is reported by him as wintering in the Aretic wherever 
“open places occur during that season. 
The naturalist of the Jeannette observed it the first of May, 1880, as it was flying to the 
westward by their vessel, and it was seen again at various times during the drift of that vessel, 
and was breeding upon Bennett Island in greatest abundance. It is upon this last record that 
the bird is ineluded within the present list, since we have no record of its occurrence nearer 
Bering Strait. 
LIST OF FISHES KNOWN TO OCCUR IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN NORTH OF BERING 
STRAIT. 
[Prepared for Capt. C. L. Hooper, United States Revenue Marine, by TARLETON H. BEAN, ] 
The following list, based exclusively upon the collections of the United States National 
Museum, is incomplete; but the material upon which it is founded is in the Museum and 
constitutes a voucher for the names employed. Many other fishes certainly exist in this portion 
of the Arctic, but, as this does not profess to include all recorded species, it is wonecessary to 
compile additional names : 
1. GASTEROSTEUS PUNGITIUS L. subsp. BRACHYPODA Bean. 
Elephant Point, Escholtz Bay, September 2, 1880. Dall & Bean. 
Near Iey Cape, Arctic Ocean, August 25, 1880. T. H. Bean. 
2, PLEURONECTES STELLATUS Pallas. 
Anderson River, fide Prof. S. F. Baird. 
Hotham Inlet, Kotzebue Sound, 1880. Capt. C. L. Hooper. 
