CEUISE OF STEAMER CORWIN IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN. 115 



taken at Saint Michael's. Tlie, predominance of arcticus probably holds good for all the Bering 

 Sea localities. 



COLYMBUS SEPLBNTRIONALIS Linn. 



(177.) Red-throated Diver. 



This bird is present in about e(iual 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. 



ALCID^. 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 ujion 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 Kanien on 

 June 29, 1881, and a few were noted at East Cape the first of July. At Herald Island a single 

 spcciiiien was seen, and in the vicinity of Cape Thompson niid Cape Lisburne, on the American 

 shore, a few were seen, but they were not abundant. Puttin Island, a small rocky islet- iu 

 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 

 iccord from Herald Island, foims the northernmost data we jjosesss concerning their distribution. 



LUNDA CIRRHATA Pall. 



(179.) Tufted Puffin. 



These bii'ds are verj- 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 

 I'utfin. 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 Kameu the last of June, and again at East 

 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. 



PHALBRIS PSITTACULA (Pall.) Temm. 



(ISO.) 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 iind other islands of Bering Strait, besides along the Siberian 

 shore, where, at Plover Bay, we found 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 (piite a number of 

 these birds, and in every case found them gorged with the small crustaceans which swarmed in 



