192 ALASKA. 



ever during the whole year. It is a most gregarious duck ; sol- 

 itary pairs never stray away from the flock. The females seem 

 to outnumber the males, two to one." 



511. Soinateria stellei'i, (Pall.) Nkwt.— S«e?Z«-'s iUfVZe?-. 

 Anas sieUeri, Pall. Spic. Zool.,vi. 35, pi. 5, (1769.) 

 Clangida stelleri, BoiB. Isis, 5G4, (1822.) 

 FidUjula steUeri, Bp. Syn. B. U. S. 394, (1828.) 

 Macropus stelleri, Nutt. Mau., ii, 451, (1834.) 

 Folysticta stelleri, Eyton. Hist. Brit. B., 79, (1836.)-Bd. B. N. 



A., 801, (1858.) 

 Eniconetta slellevi, Gray. List Geu. of B., 95, (1840.) 

 Earelda stelleri, Keys, et Bias. Wirb. Europ., 230, (1840.) 

 Eeniconetta stelleri, Agass. Ind. Uuiv., 178, (1846.) 

 Soinateria stelleri, Newt. P. Z. S., 400, (1861.)— CouES. Key, 291, 



(1872.) 

 Anas dispar, Sparrm. Mus. Carls., pi. vii, viii, (1786.) 

 Fuligula dispar, Stepii. Shaw's Geu. Zool., xii, 206, (1824.) 

 SteUeria dispar, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. and X. A., 57, (1838.) 

 Anas occidua, Bonn, et Vieill. Ency. Met., i, 130, (1823.) 



"A few of these ducks were observed, but not secured, on 

 Saint Paul's, in tne spring of 1872. Two were shot at the East 

 Point, Saint George's, the same year. It is only a straggler." 



As several experienced ornithologists have stated, Steller's 

 duck is a true eider in all essential respects. Various views of 

 its systematic position which have been entertained are indi- 

 cated by the foregoing synonymy. 



An egg of Steller's duck, in the Smithsonian, from the Peters- 

 burg Museum, through H. E. Dresser, esq., collected in 

 Kamtschatka, measures 2.20 x 1.60, and is like that of the com- 

 mon eider in shape, color, and texture of shell. 



.534. Oraciiliis bicristatus, (Pall.) Gray. Fed-faced Cormorant. 



" Oreel." 

 ? Fed-faced Cormonmt or Sluig, Pexnaxt & Latham. (Arct. Zool., 



11, 584 ; Gen. Syn. vi, 601. Kamtschatka.) 

 ? Felecanus urile, G:m. Syst. Nat., 1, 575, (1788.)— Lath. Ind. 



Orn. ii, 888, (1790.) 

 Flialacrocorax bicristatus. Pall. Zoog. Rosso-As., ii,301, pi. 75, 



f. 2, (1811.) 

 Graculus UcrisfaUis, Gray. Gen. of Birds. Haud-list, ill, 128, 



No. 11129.— Bd. Tr. Chic. Acad., 1 , 321, pi. 33, (1869.)— Call. 



& Baxx. Ibid., 302.— Coues. Key, 304, (1872.) 

 Urile bicristatus, Bp.,partim. Conip. A\'., 11, 175, (1851.) 

 " Phalacrocorax 2)ela(jicns, FxiJ.:' Zoog. Ecsso-As., ii, 303, pi. 



76, (1811.) 



The cormorant, which swarms on the Prybilov Islands, ap- 

 I)ears to be unquestionably the bird of Pallas, which is most 



