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ington, at Union Bay, Vancouver Island, at some of the Aleutian Islands, 

 a few hours at Copper Island and Bering Island, with short halts at various 

 points along the Japanese and Kamchatkan coasts. The list contains 

 important notes on many of the species, as the Puffins, Anklets, Guillemots, 

 and other sea birds met with along the American coast, in the Aleutian 

 Archipelago, in the Kuril Islands, and along the coast of Kamchatka. 

 The only Point Barrow Gull seen was observed in Patience Bay, Sakhahn, 

 while the Vega Gull "was rather common in Unalga Pass, near Unalaska," 

 and was seen again, in small numbers, in Avacha Bay, Kamchatka. 

 There are also interesting notes on the Albatrosses, the Pacific Fulmar, 

 and the various species of Petrel observed. The Kamchatkan Sea Eagle 

 (Thrassaetus pelagicus) is recorded as seen near the town of Unalaska, but 

 unfortunately was not obtained. So sure is Dr. Clark of its identification 

 that he says: "A thorough survey of these [Aleutian] islands may show 

 that this species, as well as Haliaetus albicilla. which has been recently 

 recorded from Unalaska, are of more or less regular occurrence throughout 

 the whole group." 



Under Lagopus lagopus alexandrce are several pages of critical notes on 

 Ptarmigans, with figures of bills of three forms of the L. lagopus group, 

 and a key to the American subspecies of Lagopus lagopus, three being recog- 

 nized, as follows: (1) L. I. alleni, Newfoundland; (2) L. I. albus (Gmelin), 

 inhabiting "northern Labrador, westward and northward to northern 

 Alaska, reaching Point Barrow, Kotzebue Sound, Cape Lisbourne, and 

 Kowak River (type locality, Hudson Bay)"; (3) L. I. alexandrce, "south- 

 ern Alaska, from coasts of Norton Sound and Alaska Peninsula, including 

 Kadiak and Shumagin islands, southeastward to mountains of southeast- 

 ern Alaska." 



The paper as a whole contains much interesting information about a 

 large number of species, particularly the pelagic forms and those breeding 

 at the various northern islands visited. The cruise afforded rare oppor- 

 tunities for ornithological observation, and they seem to have been well 

 utilized. — J. A. A. 



Clark on Birds collected by P. L. Jouy in Korea.* — The late Pierre Louis 

 Jouy spent over three years (between 1881 and 1886) in Korea, and at 

 the time of his untimely death in 1894 was engaged in the preparation of a 

 report on the ornithological collection made by him in that country, 

 numbering 554 specimens, and representing, according to Dr. Clark's 

 present account, about 165 species. In 1907 Dr. Clark published a con- 

 siderable number of new species from Jouy's collection,^ and incidental 



1 Report on a Collection of Birds made by Pierre Louis Jouy in Korea. By Austin 

 F. Clark, Assistant Curator, Division of Marine Inverteljrates, U. S. National Mu- 

 seum. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1735, pp. 147-176. Publislied 

 May 9, 1910. 



2 For a review of this paper see Auk, Vol. XXIV, 1907, p. 453. 



