NATURAL-HISTORY RECORDS OF PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 
By G. DALLAS HANNA. 
Tt seems to be highly desirable that there shall be published in a 
readily accessible place a résumé of the scientific work which has 
been done in connection with the biology of the Pribilof Islands. 
This group of islands has been more intensively studied than any 
other similar area in Alaska and will continue, doubtless, to attract 
attention in the future. Records of publications on the various 
groups of plants and animals are often widely scattered, and em- 
ployees of the Bureau stationed on the islands have little opportunity 
to search for them. 
The last bibliography of the subject was published in 1915 in a 
report by Osgood, Preble, and Parker.t_ This list was known to be 
incomplete at the time of its preparation and was intended to cover 
the subject “ fur seals” only. Yet it is very valuable to anyone who 
has occasion to study the literature of the Pribilof Islands. 
The following list. is the result of note taking through several suc- 
cessive years s and is intended to cover the general natural history of 
the islands in so far as I have the records. It also is known to be 
incomplete, but it takes up the most important work which has been 
done since the appearance of the above-mentioned bibliography. In 
some cases papers published prior to 1914 are included because of 
their interest to island students. 
It should be explained that in addition to the following titles many 
Pribilof Islands records are contained in general publications which 
are not listed. For instance, Dall* has mentioned a large number of 
marine mollusks from the Pribilofs in his work on Northwest Coast 
Shells. The same is true of birds in Ridgway’s “ Birds of North and 
Middle America,” *? Hamilton’s “ Coleoptera of Alaska,” + Evermann 
and Goldsborough’s “ Fishes of Alaska,” ® and others. A new work 
is expected from the National Herbarium soon and it will contain 
full records of Alaska plants, including those from the Pribilof 
Islands. 
The report of Alaska Fisheries and Fur Industries in 1918 (Bu- 
reau of Fisheries Document No. 872, pp. 105-107) contained a check 
list of birds of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, with the names of per- 
sons first recording the species from the islands. This list contained 
names of 129 species and subspecies. It has been increased by six, 
the first three added in 1920, the fourth restored on evidence col- 
1The Fur Seals and Other Life of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, in 1914. Bulletin, Bureau 
of Fisheries, Vol. XXXIV, 1914 (1916), pp. 149-167. Washington, 1915. 
2U. S. National Museum, Bulletin 112. 921. 
2U. S. National Museum, Bulletin 50. 
4Transactions, American Entomological Society, Vol. XXI, . 1-88. 1894. 
5 Bulletin, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. SxVir pp. 219-— 360. 1906. 
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