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thrown ashore dead. For lack of a special name the Kamcha- 

 dals^^^ have given it the name "cabbage eater." "^ 



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The sea birds and the migratory birds that I had opportunity 

 to observe on Bering Island are almost the same as those one 

 meets with on the eastern coast of Kamchatka. However, a 

 special kind of large sea raven ^^^ with a callow white ring about 

 the eyes and red skin about the beak, which is never seen in 

 Kamchatka, occurs there but only on the rocks near Steller's 

 Cave. Of rarer birds not seen on the Siberian coast I have met 

 with a special sea eagle ^^^ with white head and tail [and] the white 

 sea raven^^ {Pelec.Bassanus). It is impossible to reach the latter 

 because it only alights singly on the clififs facing the sea; the 

 former nests on the highest rocks, and at the beginning of June 



i'8 Instead of "the Kamchadals" the MS reads "they." 

 i'9 "Krautfresser" in the German; this is a translation of the Russian 

 kaptistnik, cabbage eater, the sea cow being so called because of its 

 feeding on seaweeds, in Russian morskaya kapusta, or sea cabbage. 



180 The source of this section is not known. Several of Steller's manu- 

 script reports listed by Pekarskii deal with this topic (in Zapiski Imp. 

 Akad. Nauk, Suppl. i, 1869, p. 26; No. 9, on birds; Nos. 7 and 8, on 

 fishes; in Istoriya Akademii Nauk, Vol. i, St. Petersburg, 1870, pp. 

 614-615: No. 21, on plants, animals, birds, and fishes; Nos. 36 and 45, 

 on birds; Nos. 39, 42, and 43 on fishes). 



181 The spectacled cormorant, Phalacrocorax perspicillatiis Pallas, 

 extinct since about 1850. See Stejneger, U. S. Natl. Museum Bull. 2q, 

 1885, pp. 180-181, and Froc. U. S. Natl. Museum, Vol. 6, 1883, p. 65, 

 and Vol. 12, 1889, pp. 83-88. (S) 



182 Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Linnaeus). See Stejneger, U. S. Natl. 

 Museum Bull. 29, 1885, pp. 209-213, and Proc. U. S. Natl. Museum, 

 Vol. 6, 1883, pp. 65-67. The northwestern race of this bird indicated by 

 me (loc. cit.) has since received the subspecific name H. I. alascanus 

 Townsend. Steller describes this eagle also in his "Beschreibung von 

 dem Lande Kamtschatka," 1774, pp. 193-194. (S) 



183 See, above, footnote 244. As in the case there discussed the Latin 

 name had been added by Pallas, it is probable that "Pelec. Bassanus" 

 here, too, is an addition by Pallas. The bird he had in mind is not 

 identifiable. (S) 



