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 stelleri, (Pall.) Newt.— Sfe?/(?r's Eider. 

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

 Clangula stelleri, BoiE. Ms, 564, (1822.) 

 Fiiligwla stelleri, Bp. Syn. B. U. S. 394, (1828.) 

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

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



A., 801, (1858.) 

 Eniconetta stelleri. Gray. List Gen. of B., 95, (1840.) 

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

 Neniconetta stelleri, Agass. Ind. Univ., 178, (1846.) 

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



(1872.) 

 Anas dispar, Sparem. Mua. Carls., pi. vii, viii, (1786.) 

 FuUgiila dispar, Steph. Shaw's Gen. Zool., xii, 206, (1824.) 

 Stelleria dispar, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. and N. A., 57, (1838.) 

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



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

 Saint Paul's, in tiie spring of 1872. Two were shot at the Bast 

 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 2.20x1.60, and is like that of the com- 

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



534. Oracilliis bicristatus, (Pall.) Geay. Eed-faced Cormorant. 



" Oreel." 

 ? Bed-faced Cormorant or Shag, Pennant & Latham. (Arct. Zool., 



11, 5ir4 ; Gen. Syn. vi, 601. Kamtseliatka.) 

 ? Pelecanus urile, Gm. Syst. Nat., 1, 575, (1788.)— Lath. Ind.. 



Orn. ii, 888, (1790.) 

 Fhalaci'ocorax hicrislatus, 'Pxijl. Zoog. Eosso-As., ii,301, pi. 75,. 



f. 2, (1811.) 

 Graculus ticristatiis. Gray. Gen. of Birds. Hand-list, lii, 128j. 



No. 11129.— Bd. Tr. Chic. Acad., ],. 321, pi. 33, (1869.)— Dall. 



& Banx. Ibid., 302.— COUBS. Key, 304, (1872.) 

 Vrile bicristatus, Bf. , jjartim. Comp. A v., 11, 17.5, (1851.) 

 " Fhalacrocorax pelagicus. Pall," Zoog. Kcsso-As., ii, 303, pi. 



76, (1811.) 



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

 pears to be unquestionably the bird of Pallas, which is most 



