v " i ,,h; XX | i:\i.km\nn, Birds New to the Pribilof Island 15 



garded as a tanager. It is true thai the bill is tiol typically tana- 

 grine Imt here again there is a clo <■ resemblance to Mitrospingus. 

 It is a natural conclusion therefore thai Rhodinocichla is to be 

 regarded as a tanager which has become more or less specialized 

 for a particular manner of life. A the stomach contents indicate 

 a ground feeder, it may be thai thai method of finding its living 

 has been t } • * - factor associated with its specialization. 



EIGHTEEN SPECIES OF BIRDS NEW TO THE PRIBILOF 



ISLANDS, INCLUDING FOUR NEW TO 



NORTH AMERICA. 1 



liV BARTON WARREN EVERMANN. 



Wiiii the appointmenl of ;i naturalisl in the fur-seal service 

 July I, L910, and the organization, in the Bureau of I'i heries, of 

 the Alaska Fisheries Service, July 1, ION, the Bureau at once began 

 tlic formation of plans for a comprehensive and thorough study 

 not only of the life history of the fur seal hut also of tin- scientific 

 managemenl and conservation of the fur-seal herd that has its 



breeding grounds on the Pribilof Islands in Bering Sea. The plan 

 i I .i<»ad in its scope arid contemplates a thorough Study of all the 

 Bpecies of animal - ami plants found on or about those islands. Dr. 

 Walter I.. Ilahn, at that time head of the departmenl of biology 

 in the -late normal school at Springfield, South Dakota, was ap- 

 pointed naturalist in (he summer of 1910. He arrived at St. Paul 

 Island August 24 and immediately entered upon his dill ies with an 



energy and intelligence which could scarcely be excelled. His 

 untimely death on May 31, 1911, from exposure in the ice-eold 

 wat.r of the village lagoon, resulting from the cap i/.ing of a boat, 



was a evere lo to the fur-seal service and to biological science. 

 During hi few month on St. Paul Island Dr. Ilahn, from the 



1 Published with the permission of the 1 8 Commissioner of Pi heri< 



