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Mr. Nelson (1887) says that “they continually uttered a chirping 
note.” Mr. Turner (1886) refers to its note as “a peculiar grunt 
of two or three syllables”; and Mr. Elliott (1880) says “the note 
of the ‘canooskie, while mating, is a loud, clanging, honk-like 
sound; at all other seasons they are as silent as the grave.” 
For the Aleut natives this and other auklets furnish an abundant 
and a welcome food supply; they are usually fat and their flesh is 
very palatable, as they are not fish eaters. The natives make a regu- 
lar business of catching them in large numbers, as they fly over their 
breeding grounds. Armed with a large dip net the native hunter 
conceals himself behind some rock where the birds are accustomed 
to fly low; the net lies flat on the ground until the birds are close 
at hand, when it is quickly and skillfully swung up at just the right 
moment and, before they have time to dodge it, séveral birds are 
caught. 
Winter.—The crested auklets move off of their breeding grounds 
when the young are able to fly in September, but they spend the 
winter in the vicinity of the Aleutian Islands and on the North 
Pacific Ocean. They probably winter as far north as they can find 
open water among the ice and do not wander as far south as the 
paroquet aukets. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Breeding range.—Coast and islands of Bering Sea and North 
Pacific. From Kodiak Island westward throughout the Aleutian 
Islands and the Commander Islands to the Kurile Islands. North- 
ward throughout Bering Sea to the Diomede Islands. 
Winter range.—Bering Sea and the North Pacific in the vicinity 
of the Aleutian and Shumagin Islands and from the Commander 
Islands to the Kuriles and Japan (two records). Occasionally north 
to the Pribilof Islands. 
Spring migration—Has been taken at Nushagak April 22. Ar- 
rives in the Pribilof Islands early in May, sometimes as early as 
March 12, and has been seen in numbers off St. Matthew Island, 
May. 25. 
Fall migration—Birds have been recorded from the Diomedes as 
late as September 10; near St. Michael, October 18; and Cape Iksurin, 
Siberia, September 26 to 28. 
Casual records—It is supposed that a specimen was taken at 
Chatham, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1884-85, but the evidence 
is not conclusive. The occurrence of this bird or the paroquet auklet 
in Sweden has already been mentioned under Phaleris psitiacula. 
Records from Sitka are questionable. Occasionally in Arctic Ocean 
(Kotzebue Sound, Point Barrow, Herald and Wrangel Islands.) 
Egg dates—Northern Bering Sea: 2 records, July 20 and August 
26. Pribilof Islands, 2 records, June 18 and July 7. Aleutian Is- 
lands: 1 record, July 1. 
