278 riiOOEEDINCS OF Tllli NATIONAI. MIJSICUM. vol. xxi. 



youiig were still in the nests at that time. Among all the, thousaiids 

 ol luluiars seen not one belonged to the light ])hase. It should be 

 remarked, however, that Seebohm records a Kuril island skin in his 

 collection from Snow as typical of the light foiin. ' It is i)robably to 

 these light-colored birds that Snow's Fnlmarns (/lari((1i.s rod(/ersi are to 

 be referred.- At Shaiia, lturn|>, I also observed dai k fulmars, Septem- 

 ber 4 to 0, 189(5. 



26. PUFP^INUS TENUIROSTRIS (Temmin:k). 83. 



Frecjuent about the Kuril ishmds. • '^About the northern, more ])ar 

 ticularly," Snow remarks.- 



27. PUFFINUS GRISEUS (Gmelin). 78. 



Snow has collected this species in tlic Kurds/ and a six'cimen of his 

 is in the l>iitish Museum.-' Accoiding lo IJlakiston and Tiyer, Snow 

 had not observed it iu)rth ol' IJrup.'' 



28. OCEANODROMA LEUCORHOA (Vieillot). 80. 



lireeding ])robabIy throughout the chain. lUakiston and I'ryer 

 mention s])ecimens from Shikotan and tlie Kuril islands in the Hako- 

 date and Siipi)oro Collejue museums. '' S(direnck gives it as obtained 

 by Wosnessenski at Shumshir and southeast of Sinuishir and Urui).' 



29. OCEANODROMA FURCATA (Gmelin). 81. 



Connnon breeding bird throughout the Kuril islands. Mr. Merck, of 

 nilling's e.\])edition, brought home ])]enty of specimens from the fur- 

 ther Kuril islands, according to Pallas." Snow found it breeding in 

 various places. * Seebohm specifies'' Kashau Island, and gives as 

 authority for the statement Blakiston and Pryer, '" but 1 can not find 

 that they ever made it. I lis last reference" concerns lilakiston's speci- 

 men (No. 1819), which, according to Blakiston's catalogue, was not from 

 the Kurils at all, but from Kamchatka. 



■ 30. HiEMATOPUS OSCULANS Swinhoe. 93. 



Pallas says that it is a frequent bird in the Kurils.'- Snow ob.served 

 it at the Kurils, according to Blakiston and Pryer,'' and one of his 

 sj>ecimens is in Seebohm's collection." 



JlivmatoiniH nigcr is by Pallas, its original describer, credited to the 



' B. .Jap. Einp., p. 269. «Zoogr., II, p. 315. 



2Notc8 Kuril Isl., 1S9(), p. 34. ■'15. .Lap. Eiiip., p. 271. 



•'P.allas, Zooj>i-., II, p. 314. '"Ihis, 1S70, p. 218. 



•'Scc).oliin, Iliis, 1S81, p. 33. " Tdeiii, 1S84, p. 33. 



■■SiiniKlcrs, Cat. 15. Biit. M118., XXV, ]». 387. '^Zoojrr., H, p. ]2!). 



•■Blakiston aiul I'lyci-, p. lOG. "Bhikistoii and Pryor, p. 109. 



'Reise Amml., pp.515, 516. "B. .Jap. Eiup., p. 313. 



