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Uria troile californica (Bryant). California Murre. Murres were seen about 
most of the islands and tw r o were killed in Dutch Harbor, July 15. No material 
was preserved except two heads which have been examined by Dr. Richmond; 
these represent the two species named above. 
Stercorarius pomarinus (Temminck). Pomarine Jaeger. On September 9 
a jaeger was seen bullying the gulls near Akun; it was possibly of the above 
species. 
Rissa tridactyla pollicaris Ridgway. Pacific Kittiwake. June 12 a large 
Hock of Kittiwakes was feeding in the tide-rip outside of English Bay; a few were 
noted August 22 near Avatanak, and in September near Akutan. 
Larus glaucescens Naumann. Glaucous-winged Gull. Several birds of this 
species were seen on Akun June 5 and a dozen or so were flying about the ships 
in Dutch Harbor June 19. July 4 a number of nests were examined on Round 
Island in Beaver Inlet; they were well made with a good hollow, the material be- 
ing moss. Many of the nests were near the water on broken rocks, others were 
in the grass higher up on the island. All the eggs obtained were heavily in- 
cubated and several nests contained small young. Three eggs was the usual 
complement. July 28 a landing was made on a rocky islet off Akun; puffins and 
gulls abounded, fully one hundred of the latter flying about. Old nests were 
found and a nearly full grown young bird was seen. O11 Ugamak, Angust 13, 
old birds were teaching the young to fly. The species was also noted in small 
numbers on Egg, Tigalda, Unimak, Avatanak, Aektok and Akutan. 
Larus Philadelphia (Ord). Bonaparte Gull. A wing found in Tigalda Bay 
August 5 and a bird seen the next day near the entrance of the bay were proba- 
bly of this species. August 1 2 about 30 were seen off Ugamak; August 15, one 
was noted off Tigalda and four off Poa; two days later the species was abundant 
in Dutch Harbor. No specimens were taken but I feel that these records refer to 
the Bonaparte gull. 
Xema sabinei (Sabine). Sabine Gull. The only individual seen of this fine 
gull was killed from the beach on Unimak, August 14. Legs and feet dark brown, 
bill black, its tip yellow, inside of mouth orange. 
Puffinus tenuirostris (Temminck). Slender-billed Shearwater. On June 6 and 
7 immense flocks of slender-billed shearwaters were seen in the waters near Easy 
Cove and Poa Island and June 21 a large flock was circling over the water outside 
Kalekta Bay and possibly feeding on fish driven to the surface by whales as sev- 
eral of the latter were seen in the vicinity. June 24 there was a large body of 
these birds near Cape Cheerful. August 15 great numbers were seen west of 
Unalga and a few off Unalga the next day. 
Under date of August 20 I find the following respecting this bird as seen off 
Akutan: “Water like glass this morning and Puffinus thick around ship. Men 
catching them with fish-hooks. Two were caught from the foot of the gangway 
as they followed a boat coming alongside. Others were knocked over with a boat- 
hook. They are quarrelsome and voracious, binder water they use their wings 
as much as their feet. All appear to be of one species.” One of our Australian 
sailors called them “mutton-birds” wherein he had the genus correctly. August 
25, when off Aektok, a few shearwaters were seen about the ship and three dead 
specimens were found on the beach. 
Altho fulmars are mentioned by Turner as occuring in “hundreds of thous- 
ands” off Unimak Pass, I never saw anything among the Krenitzin Islands that 
looked like a fulmar. The following from “Contributions to the Natural History 
of Alaska,” page 129, records all Turner saw of the slender-billed shearwater: 
