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20. STERNA CAMTSCHATICA Pallas. 63. 



The specimen killed by Mr. Snow at Iturup ' is in the Seebohm col- 

 lection.^ Seebohm's supposition that it breeds there is very dubious. 



Whether the Kurilian names Sischatscha or Naatschitsch, quoted 

 by Pallas under Sterna hirundo, belong- to the present species or pos- 

 sibly to 8. paradlsaca Briinnich is very doubtful, as the latter has not 

 been recorded from the Kuril islands. 



Mr. Snow is said to have seen a white tern at the Kurils. ' It may 

 have been a stray specimen of Gygis alba. It should be remarked, how- 

 ever, that he does not mention it in his Notes on the Kuril islands. 



21. STERCORARIUS PARASITICUS (Linnaeus). 75. 



Collected by Snow in the Kuril islands. Specimen in the Hakodate 

 Museum, according to Blakiston and Pryer, and in the Seebohm collec- 

 tion there are three, all of the dark phase.' 



22. STERCORARIUS LONGICAUDUS Vieillot. 74!. 



According to Snow, w^ho brought home specimens in 1881, this species 

 is common north of Urup.* 



23. STERCORARIUS POMARINUS (Temminck). 75A. 



According to Saunders, there is a specimen in the British Museum 

 from Snow as collected in the Kuril islands.' 



24. DIOMEDIA ALBATRUS Pallas. 77. 



Occasional visitor to the Kurils. Pallas gives its Kurilian names, as 

 Pongapitli and Ato. According to Seebohm there is a specimen, col- 

 lected by Snow at Iturup, in the British Museum." I saw one of the 

 dark phase at Eaikoke August 23, 1896. The latter is enumerated by 

 Snow as Diomedea derogata.' 



25. FULMARUS GLACIALIS GLUPISCHA Stejneger. 79. 



Cue of the commonest breeding birds in the Kurils. Pallas, on the 

 authority of Steller, says that great multitudes of this bird were cap- 

 tured by the Kuriliaus of the Fourth and Fifth island and dried in the 

 sun." Snow collected many specimens, according to Blakiston and 

 Pryer and Mr. Seebohm, 



August 22 to 25, 1896, I observed it at Mushir Rocks, Raikoke, and 

 Ushishir. On Raikoke they were exceedingly numerous,and in Crater 

 Bay of South Ushishir there were flocks of immense size. The downy 



1 Blakiston and Pryer, p. 103. - Sbarpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mu.s., 1896, XXV, p. 327. 



2B. Jap. Emp., p. 297. '• B. Jap. Emp., p. 262. 



^Idem., p. 289. ■ Notes Kuril Isl., 1896, p. 34. 



* Blakiston and Pryer, ]». 105. *'ZoogT., II, p. 313. 



