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1969 (one; J. L. Hout, unpublished), 26 June 1970 (one; H. P. Brokaw, 

 unpublished), July-September 1970-76 (several); September 1971 (one; 

 J. L. Hout, unpublished), 22 June 1981 (one; D. R. Herter and D. Lloyd, 

 personal communication), and 12 July 1984 (one; D. R. Herter et al., 

 personal communication). Grebes were also observed along the coast at 

 Goodnews Bay (one on 15 September 1977), Crooked Island (one during 

 26 June- 14 July 1977; R. D. Ameson and D. B. McDonald, personal 

 communication), and Hagemister Island (three on 10 July 1977; P. D. 

 Ameson and D. B. McDonald, personal communication). At Cape Peirce, 

 groups of one to four birds, mostly adults in alternate plumage or in 

 prebasic molt, were found primarily in inshore waters. Inland, M. J. Fry 

 (unpublished) saw a grebe at Kagati Lake on 5 August 1962; M. Brown 

 et al. (unpublished) found several (6-15) at the Kisaralik River on 15 Au- 

 gust 1985 and <5 birds per day on 5 days between 17 and 23 June 1985 

 at the Eek River. 



Nonhcm fulmar CFulmanis glacialis).VRv. 



One bird was seen at Round Island on 15 July 1974 (T. J. Eley, 

 unpublished). Fulmars were reported as fairly common in nearby off- 

 shore waters 13 July-20 August I969 (Bartonek and Gibson 1972). 



Short-tailed shearwater (Pufftnus tenuirostris), VRv. Specimen: 

 UAM2619. 



Birds were seen near Round Island on 14-23 July 1974 (T. J. Eley, 

 unpublished) and 27 June 1976 (R. Macintosh, unpublished) and were 

 recorded near Hagemeister Island in July 1946 (Gabrielson and Lincoln 

 1959). We collected a sick bird in Nanvak Bay on I6 August 1973- On 

 Crooked Island, Ameson (1977) found 17 beached shearwater carcasses 

 on his first visit to beaches, and an additional 6 carcasses were found 

 between 21 June and 7 July 1977. In nearby offshore waters, shearwaters 

 are abundant in summer (Bartonek and Gibson 1972). 



Fork-tailed storm-petrel (Oceanodrotna furcatd), Rsr. 



Fork-tailed storm-petrels were found nesting on Round Island in 

 1974 (J. J. Eley, unpublished). Around 14-23 July, T. J. Eley (unpub- 

 lished) observed eight birds flying near the island, heard birds calling 

 during the day, found three birds in the remains of red fox (Vulpes 

 vulpes) kills, found many burrows and smelled petrel odor in the burrow 

 area, and on 2 1 July pulled one bird from a burrow. We found no evidence 

 of storm-petrels nesting there in 1962 nor did Ameson (1977) in 1977. 

 Fork-tailed storm-petrels more commonly nest in Alaska in the Aleutian 

 Islands and south near the coast in the Gulf of Alaska (American Omi- 

 thologists' Union 1983). 



