308 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



Delplmnis kiicas, in the north of Beering's Straits, 

 as we infer from several accounts. 



On the coast of Beering's Straits are found several 

 species of Viverra and Cams, among which the black 

 fox has chiefly excited our rapacity. The very com- 

 mon Arctomys cytillus, the skin of which produces 

 an elegant fur, is distinguished among the Glires. 

 The rein-deer, which belongs to both coasts, seems 

 to be wanting in St. Lawrence Island. The dog, 

 every where in the north the first companion to 

 man, and his useful draught animal, is wanting 

 only on the Aleutian islands, where it was formerly 

 introduced and increased, but was extirpated by 

 the masters of the country, because it pursued the 

 fox, whose skin was their surest source of riches. 



Many land-birds have spread over to Oonalashka 

 from the nearest coast, of which the white-headed 

 American eagle is predominant. With respect to 

 the albatrosses, Diomedea ea:iilcms, we have to cor- 

 rect a very common error, which has gained credit 

 imder the authority of Pallas.* The albatross 

 does not visit the north as a transitory guest from 

 the southern hemisphere, merely to appease its 

 hunger for a short time, and then to return at the 



* Unica Septentrionum visitans avis Diomedea albatrus, 

 hiemem antarcticam fugiens, per imniensum oceanum ad nostra 

 littora, aestlva abundantia piscium anadromorum allicitur, ncc 

 tamen apud nos general, sed ad aestatem antarcticam prolifi- 

 candi gratia illuc denuo abit, Zoogr. Ross, vol. i. p. 297, ami 

 vol. ii. p. j08. 



