250  SMITHSONIAN    MISCELLANEOUS    COLLECTIONS  VOL.    96 
ihe  Steller,  Pacific,  and  King  eiders,  and  the  paroquet  auklet  were 
all  more  abundantly  represented  at  Kialegak  than  at  Gambell  would 
indicate  that  these  species  also  were  more  common  at  the  eastern  than 
at  the  western  end  of  the  island. 
It  should  be  recognized  that  the  accidental  selection  involved  in 
collecting  the  bones  might  be  responsible  in  some  degree  for  the  con- 
ditions shown  in  table  4;  and  that  many  of  the  gaps  would  certainly 
be  filled  if  a  still  larger  collection  of  bones  were  available.  This  would 
apply  particularly  to  Seklowaghyaget,  where  material  of  all  kinds  was 
rather  scarce  and  where  relatively  little  excavating  was  done.  How- 
ever, there  is  no  reason  to  believe  that  the  relative  occurrence  of  the 
various  forms  would  be  materially  affected. 
One  of  the  most  striking  facts  to  appear  from  the  table  is  the  large 
number  of  species  and  the  quantity  of  bones  from  levoghiyoq,  indi- 
cating that  birds  were  a  more  important  item  of  food  during  the  Punuk 
period  than  at  any  other  time.  It  will  also  be  observed  from  table  4 
that  there  was  always  a  strong  preference  for  sea  birds.  This  is  shown 
by  the  fact  that  the  murre,  the  tufted  puffin,  the  pelagic  cormorant, 
the  long-tailed  jaeger,  and  even  such  a  strong  flying  bird  as  the  alba- 
tross were  all  obtained  in  greater  numbers  than  either  the  loons  or  the 
geese.  The  waders,  the  small  land  birds,  the  raven,  and  the  owl  are 
among  the  local  forms  which  seem  not  to  have  been  utilized  at  all 
for  food. 
Samples  of  fish  bones  collected  from  the  five  sites  were  all  identified 
by  E.  D.  Reid,  of  the  division  of  fishes.  United  States  National 
Museum,  as  those  of  the  cod,  genus  Gadus. 
Barnacle  shells  collected  from  all  of  the  sites,  except  Seklowaghy- 
aget, were  identified  by  Dr.  H.  A.  Pilsbry,  of  the  Philadelphia 
Academy  of  Sciences,  as  belonging  to  the  species  Coronula  diadema 
(L.),  the  whale  barnacle,  and  Balanus  balanus  (L.),  a  north  Atlantic 
form  which  is  also  found  in  Bering  Sea  and  which  commonly  grows 
on  moUuscan  shells. 
Harald  A.  Rehder,  assistant  curator,  division  of  moUusks,  United 
States  National  Museum,  has  identified  the  molluscan  remains  as  fol- 
lows :  Thais  saxicola  Val.,  theWest  Coast  rock  purple ;  Volutopsis  sp. ; 
Mytilus  cdulis  L.,  the  edible  mussel;  Pecten  islandicus  Miill.,  the 
northern  scallop;  Serripes  laperousei  Desh.,  one  of  the  cockles; 
Macoma  middoidorffi  Dall ;  Spisula  polynyma  alaskana  Dall,  the 
"Alaskan"  surf  clam;  and  Saxicava  pJwladis  L.,  one  of  the  rock- 
borers.  Most  of  the  forms  were  represented  at  all  of  the  sites,  except 
Seklowaghyaget,  but  in  view  of  the  relatively  small  size  of  the  sample, 
the  absence  of  a  particular  species  is  of  no  significance. 
