Jan., 1901 
THE CONDOR 
Record of Alaskan Birds 
IN TUB 
Collection of the Leland Stanford Junior University. 
BY JO.SEPH GRINNELL- 
The Zoological Mii.seum of the Leland Stanford Junior University contain.s 
several small collections of birds taken at various times in the western part of 
Alaska, and these I believe afford data of enough value to warrant the present 
paper. Ur. C. H. Gilbert of the Zoological Department of the University has 
kindly given me permission to work over the material, and has also aided me with 
pertinent suggestions. 
The Alaskan bird skins in the Museum number nearly two hundred, and were 
taken in the following localities: Pribilof Lslands (both St. George and St. Paul), 
Amagnak Island, Belkoosky Bay, PTnga Island, Kadiak Island and Prince William 
Sound. I have thought it better to record the birds in a separate list for each 
locality. Unfortunately there are no field-notes accompanying the specimens, so 
that the annotations are chiefly of a technical nature. 
I hav^e made use of the collection of the California Acadeni}^ of Sciences in 
comparing specimens, as well as my own series of Alaskan birds. 
Pribilof Islands. 
Twenty-one specie.s are represented in the collection from this group of islands. They were all 
taken by Snodgrass (R. PL) and Greeley, (A. W.) betw’een July 25 and September 4, 1897. Two 
of these species ( Totanus melanoleiiciis and Saxicola cenanthc) are new to the list of birds known 
from the Pribolofs. The exhaustive paper by William Palmer on “Avifauna of the Pribilof 
Islands,”* enumerates sixty-nine species of authentic occurrence. One other has since been 
recorded t( Tringa acuminata). The present additions probably come under the head of casual 
or irregular visitants, and bring the total list of birds known from this group of islands up to 
seventy-two species. 
1. Lunda cirrhata Pall. Tufted Puffin. 
St George Island. 5. July 26; St. Paul Island, ^ $, September i. 
2. Fratercula cornicnlata (Naum.). Horned Puffin. 
St. Paul Island, 5 August 22, September i and 4. 
3. Cycloi'rhynch’is psittaculns [VM.). Paroquet Anklet. 
St. George Island, (5 ^ , July 26. 
4. Simorhynchns cristatellns {VaW.). Crested Anklet. 
,St. George Island, ,5 ? ? > July 26. 
5. Simor/iynchus p);silltis {VaW.). Least Anklet. 
St. George Island, ^ July 26: St, Paul Island, $, August 21. 
6. [iria lomvia arva (Pall.). Pallas’s Murre. — . 
St. George Island, 5 , July 25, ^ 
7. Kissa brevirostris (Bruch). Red-legged Rittiwake. 
St. George Island, ^ 5 , July 26. • ^ 
8. Lanis glaucescens 'tsimm. Glaucons-winged 
St. Paul Island, $ im., September 4. ^ 
g. Phalacrocorax urile (Gmel.). Red-faced Cormorant. 
St. Paul Island, ^ ^ , July 31; <5 , September 2, 
10. Haretda hyernalis (Linn.). Old-scinaw. 
St. Paul Island, August 17, two downy young evidently not more than two days old. This 
seems to indicate an unusually late nesting date. 
11. Crymophilus fulicarius (Linn.). Red Phalarope. 
St. Paul Island, < 5 , August 17: $, August 31. 
12. P/ialaropHS lobat ns (lAwn.). Northern Phalarope. 
St. Paul Island, $, August 31. 
13. Tringa ptilocnemis Coues- Pribilof Sandpiper. ^ 
St. George and St. Paul Islands, eight specimens, August 17-2^. 
*The Fur-Seals and Fur-Seal Islciids of the North Pacific. Part 3. Washiug’tfin: 1899. p. 355. 
jM. Am. Fauna, No. 10. Birds of the Yukon Rejio'U etc. By Fr. I . P. Bisirop, ('ctober, 1900. p. 66. 
