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taken at Saint Michael's. The predominanee of arcHcus probably holds good for all the Bering 

 Sea localities. 



COLYMBUS SEPLENTRIONALIS Linn. 



(177.) Eed-theoated Diver. 



This bird is present in abont equal numbers with the black-throated species, and is extremely 

 familiar, its loud note and peculiar liabits, like that of the other Loous, rendering it well known 

 to any one who becomes familiar with the marshes of the North. It uests abundantly all along 

 the coast from the Peninsula of Aliaska to Kotzebuc Sound, extending across the sea to the 

 Siberian shore, but is not known from the islands of this sea, although it undoubtedly occurs 

 there. 



ALCIDJE. AUKS. 

 FRATERCULA CORNICULAIiA (Haum.) Gray. 



(17S.) HoENED Puffin. 



This is one of the most common birds found in Bering Sea. It nests abundantly all along the 

 Aleutian chain and upon all the rocky islets of this sea, as well as almost every rocky cape which 

 projects along the coast line. It was seen by us in small numbers oft' Cape Serdze Kamen on 

 June 29, 18S1, and a few were noted at East Cape the first of July. At Herald Island a single 

 specimen was seen, and in the vicinity of Cape Thompson and Cape Lisburne, on ihe American 

 sliore, a few were seen, but they were not abundant. Puftin Island, a small I'ocky islet in 

 Escholtz Bay, Kotzebue Sound, is literally alive with these birds, which coA^er the rocks as 

 they perch along the slope of the rocky shore. While visiting this islet a bird was seen coming in 

 from the sea, carrying four sticklebacks in its mouth. The fish were placed crosswise in the bill, 

 and the bird looked very odd as it came swiftly along with the fish so held. It flew directly to a 

 crevice in the rocks and disappeared. While walking over the island the growling and grunting 

 noises made by the birds is distinctly heard, and the entire ground appears to be alive with 

 them. The representative of this bird in the North Atlantic, the Large-billed Puffin, breeds in 

 small numbers about the northeast end of Siiitzbergen and on Nova Zemlya, which, with the 

 record from Herald Island, forms the northernmost data we posesss concerning their distribution. 



LUNDA CIRRHATA Pall. 



(179.) Tufted Puffin. 



These birds are very common all along the Aleutian chain, and thence north to Bering Strait. 

 They are, however, much less abundant in nearly every place than their relative, the Horned 

 Puffin, which has the same distribution. A few of the present species were seen at Cape 

 Thompson, on the Alaskan coast of the Arctic, July 19, but they were far more scarce than the 

 other species. They were also seen oft' Cape Serdze Kamen the last of June, and again at East 

 Cape the first of July. The same proportion was found to hold in Kotzebue Sound, so it is 

 evident that this bird is a more southern species than its relative. 



PHALERIS PSITTACULA (Pall.) Temm. 



(180.) Parrot-billed Auk. 



These odd birds are very common in Bering Sea, from the Aleutian Islands north, breeding in 

 great abundance upon the fur-seal group and all the other islands of this sea. They also swarm 

 by thousands about the Diomedes and other islands of Bering Strait, besides along the Siberian 

 shore, where, at Plover Bay, we found them in the greatest abundance. They were arlso seen off 

 Cape Serdze Kamen on June 29, 1881. It rarely extends its range beyond the Straits, however. 

 On August 26, while on an excursion to the head of Plover Bay, we secured quite a number of 

 these birds, and in every case found them gorged with the small crustaceans which swarmed in 



