118 CRUISE OF STEAMER CORWIN IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN. 



The bird also occurs along both shores of Bering Sea in the greatest numbers wherever cliflfs afford 

 proper nesting sites. At Cape Serdze Kauien, northwest of Bering Strait, we found it in large 

 numbers just offshore, and again at East Cape on the rocky faces of the cliffs, as well as upon 

 the islands in the middle of the Straits. It was rather scarce, however, among the islands in 

 Kotzebue Sound. On July .'50, 1S81, as we drew near Herald Island on the Corwin this bird 

 became more and more abundant, cinsling about us or alighting in small parties and singly among 

 loose blocks of ice, sometimes standing upon the ice or sitting upright near its edge. Flocks 

 came swinging about us in circles, apparently filled with curiosity at the strange apparition 

 breaking in upon their quiet. As we drew still nearer myriads of Guillemots and these birds, 

 with large numbers of the Kittiwake Gull, came swarming down from the clilis until the air was 

 filled witli their moving forms, and occasionally the awkward shape of a Cormorant was seen as it 

 passed back and forth and then returned again to its home among the ledges. 



On two occasions one of the Murres was seen perched upon the edge of an icecake a few 

 yards iu diameter and staring at us intently until the bow of the vessel struck the opposite sides 

 of its support, when the bird would ])lump into the water with ridiculous haste. 



As we climbed the steep faces of the island many of them dropped off their perches here and 

 there and circled back and forth above our heads, uttering at the time a peculiar low growling 

 note. The Guillemots had a flue piping note, which they also uttered during our ascent of the 

 island. Both birds were extremely unsuspicious, and allowed us to pass within a few yards 

 without showing any signs of fear. 



LOMVIA ARRA BRUNNICHI (Sch.) Ridgw. 



(192.) Brunnich's Guillemot. 



There is no record of this bird from Bering Sea, but it breeds on Spitzbergen and Nova 

 Zemlya and islands of that region north to 80° at least. Nordenskiold found half-grown yonng on 

 the Freobrao Islands, August 24, during his voyage. It was also seen by him east of Cape 

 Cheljuskin. 



This bird, like the Black Guillemot, is reported by him as wintering iu the Arctic wherever 

 open places occur during that season. 



The naturalist of the Jeannette observed it the first of May, 1880, as it was flying to the 

 westward by their vessel, and it was seen again at various times during the drift of that vessel, 

 and was breeding upon Bennett Island in greatest abundance. It is upon this last record that 

 the bird is included within the present list, since we have no record of its occurrence nearer 

 Bering Strait. 



LIST OF FISHES KNOWN TO OCCUR IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN NORTH OF BERING 



STRAIT. 



[Prepared for Capt. C. L. H(Xip(r, United States Revenue Marine, by Tarleton H. Bean,] 



The following list, based exclusively upon the collections of the United States National 

 Museum, is incomplete; but the material upon which it is founded is in the Museum and 

 constitutes a voucher for the names employed. Many other fishes certainly exist in this portion 

 of the Arctic, but, as this does not profess to include all recorded species, it is unnecessary to 

 compile additional names : 



1. Gasterosteus pungitius L. subsp. BRACHYPODA Bean. 



Elephant Point, Bscholtz Bay, September 2, 1880. Dall & Bean. 

 Near Icy Cape, Arctic Ocean, August 25, 1880. T. H. Bean. 



2. Pleuroneotes stellatus Pallas. 



Anderson River, fide Prof. S. F. Baird. 



Hotham Inlet, Kotzebue Sound, 1880. Capt. C. L. Hooper. 



