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all vessels from Bering Island consequently first stopping at Sitka, 

 there is every probability that the specimens in question were collected 

 on that island. This conclusion is corroborated by the manner in which 

 P. perspicillatus and Leucosticte griscogenys are mentioned together. 



So far as known, these are the only specimens iu existence, viz : Two 

 in the museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg; 

 one in the British Museum, London; one in the "Rijks Museum/' Ley- 

 den, Holland. 



Several pictures of Pallas's Cormorant have been published. A large 

 colored plate by Wolf, from the British Museum specimen, is in Elliot's 

 Birds of North America, a reduced wood engraving copy of which is 

 given in the Standard Natural History (or Riverside Natural History), 

 vol. iv, p. 192. The same specimen is also figured in two different posi- 

 tions by Gould in the Zoology of the voyage of the Sulphur, and poorly 

 copied iu Reichenbach's " Natatorum Novitire." Iu Schlegel's " Dieren- 

 tiuin," p. 281, there is a wood-cut, probably taken from the Leyden speci- 

 men. According to Dr. Fiusch (Abh. Natur. Hist. Ver. Bremen, in, 

 1872, p. 20) this species, undoubtedly from one of the St. Petersburg 

 specimens, is represented on plate V, Fig. 4, of Brandt's u Icon. A v. 

 Ross," a work which was never published. 



Dr. Theodor Pleske kindly writes me in regard to the specimens in 

 St. Petersburg: 



Through the kind offices of Dr. Pleske I have received from Profes- 

 sor Brandt's heirs that part of the manuscript of his unpublished mono- 

 graph of the Cormorants, which relates to the species, in question, with 

 permission to publish it. The description is very full, and being the, 

 only accurate and detailed description of the species I take great pleas- 

 ure in printing it in full. In order to avoid any errors I deem it best to 

 publish it in the language in which it was originally written. I have 

 preceded this description with a* synonymy which is thought to be 

 nearly exhaustive. 



Phalacrocorax perspicillatus Pall. 



1826.— Phalacrocorax perspicillatus Pallas, Zoogr. Ross. As. II, p. 305.— Gould, 

 Zool. Sulphur, p. 49, pi. xxxii (1844).— Bonaparte, Cousp. Av. n, p. 167 

 (1855).— Id., Coinpt. Rend., 1856, xliii, p.— Taczanowski, Orn. Faun. Vert. 

 Sibir., p. 66 (1877).— Id., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 41— Ridgway, 

 Noinencl. N. Am. B., p. 51 (1881).— Id., Man. N. Am. B., p. 81 (1887;.— Coues, 

 Check L. and Diet., p. 118 (1882).— Id., Key, 2ed., p.— (18— ).— Id., Auk, 1864, 

 p. 144.— Id , Key, 3 ed., p.— (18— ).— Stejneger, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus, vi, 1883, 

 p. 65.— Id., ibid., x, 1887, p. 138.— M, Auk., 1884, p. 173.— Id., Oru. Expl. 

 Kamtsch., pp. 180, 318 (1885).— Id., Stand. Nat. Hist,, IV, p. 191, Fig. 92 

 (1885).— Baird, Brewer, & Ridgway, Water B., N. Am., n., p. 164, tig. 

 (1884).— A. O. U. Code and Check L., p. 351 (1886). 



1858.— Graculus perspicillatus Lawrence, in Baird, B. N. Am., p. 877 (1858).— Schle- 

 Gel, Mus. P.-Bas, Pelec, p. 17 (1863).— Id., Dierentuio, p. 281, fig. (1871).— 



Elliot, B. N. Am., pt. — , pi. 50 ( ).— Gray, Hand-1., in, p. 127(1871).— 



Coues, Key, 1 ed., p. 304 (1872).— Id., Check L., p. 101 (1873). 



1850.— Graculus urile Reichenbach, Natat. Novit., pi. xvn, Figs. 2311 and 2312 {nee 

 Gmel.) (Cf. Bonap., Consp Av. i, p. 168, and A. B. Meyer, Index Reicheub., 

 p. 44; no name on the plate !) 



