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geese having tiq black on the heads or necks. Later I saw two others. They probably 

 occur as migrants every year. 



11. Branta canadensis minima Eidgw. Cackling Goose. 



Branta canadensis, var. leucoparHa, CouES, in Elliott's Ept, Aff. Alaska, 1873; Reprint, 1875, 190. 



Branta canadensis, Elliott, Mod. Seal Ids., 1882, 130. 



B[ranta] o[aYiadensis] Jeucoparia, CouBS, Key, 1892, 689. 



Branta minima EidgWay, Proo. U. S. N. M., 1885, 22.— Salvadori, Cat. B. Br. Mus., XXVII, 



1895, 116. 

 Branta canadensis minima Eidgway, Proo. U. S. N. M., 1885, 355.— Man., 1896, 117.— A. O. U. Ch. 



List, 1895, 63. 



Does not breed, but seen every year, spring and fall. While walking to Bast 

 Landing on June 25 a goose flew past me while on its way up the island. On June 28 

 a native saw twenty-nine in Kauiminista Lake About the same time I saw two 

 others come in out of the fog on the reef and pass on, flying very low, up the island. 

 No. 62526, ad. 3 , May 14, 1872, St. Paul, H. W. Elliott. 



12. Pbilacte canagica (Sevast.). Emperor Goose. 



Philacte canagica, CoUES, in Elliott's Ept. Aff. Alaska, 1873 ; Jieprint, 1875, 189 ; Key, 1890, 686.— 

 Elliott, Men. Seal Ids., 1882, 130.— Turner, Con. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 142.— Town- 

 send, Cruise Corwin, 1887, 99.— A. O. U. Ch. List, 1895, 64.— Eidgway, Man. 1896, 118 — 

 Salvadori, Cat. B. Br. Mus., XXVII, 1895, 109. 



Stragglers occur almost every summer and as migrants. Elliott says they get 

 "over here by mistake, 1 fancy, for the flock of which I witnessed the capture landed 

 on St. Paul so exhausted that the natives ran the birds down in open chase over the 

 grass." One was killed on St. George July 16, 1890, and others have been taken 

 since. They occur nearly everj' year in- varying numbers. "Three or four stragglers 

 were also seen on St. Paul Island in September." — (Townsend.) 



13. Olor columbianus (Ord). Whistling Swan. 



Cygniis columbianus, Salvadori, Cat. B. Br. Mus., XXVII, 1895, 32.— Coubs, Key, 1890, 686. 

 Olor columbianus, A. O. U. Ch. List, 1895, 65.— Eidgway, Man. 1896, 120. 



They occur occasionally. Several were seen on St. George in the fall of 1889 and 

 three rested on the shpre at Halfway Point, on St. Paul, during the same autumn. 



Order TUBINAEES. Tube-nosed Swimmers. ' 



Family DIOMEDEIDAE. Albatrosses. 



14. Diomedea albatrus Pall. Short-tailed Albatross. 



Siomedea brachyura, Codes, in Elliott's Ept. Aff. Alaska, 1873; Reprint, 1875, 194; Key, 1890, 



775.— Elliott, Mou. Seal Ids., 1882, 131. 

 Diomedea albatrus, Salvin, Cat. B. Br. Mus., XXV, 1896, 427.— A. O. U. Ch. List, 1895, 28.— 



Eidgway, Man., 1896, 51. 



While I was on St. Paul a brown immature bird was decoyed to a fishing boat 

 by means of small pieces of fat and was killed with a stick by a native. Generally 

 a few can be seen among the kelp and wash off the Eeef point, but they are quite 

 rare as compared with many years ago when whales and whalers were numerous, for, 

 as Elliott says of one that he shot, "For as I first discussed the large bulk and 

 spread of the albatross prior to shooting the natives clapped their hands and said, 

 'Ton should have been here twenty years ago, when instead of this solitary example 

 you would have seen thousands.' They came with the whalers and disappeared as 



' The first and second feather structures of the members of this order are not greatly different to 

 those of the grebes and loons and the lower members of the auks, though evidently inferior. 



