Sept., 1906 | BIRDS OBSERVED IN THE KRENITZIN ISLANDS, ALASKA 117 
“With these birds [Fulmarus glacialis glupischa\ are associated in a manner, 
another bird of which I obtained at Amchitka Island, a single specimen which had 
been thrown up dead by the sea and so far advanced in decomposition that to lift 
it separated the members of its body. This dead bird resembled those associated 
with the Pacific Fulmars and was, so far as possible to identify it, a specimen of 
Puffinus tenuirostris Ternm.” 
Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Vieillot). Teach Petrel/ A petrel of this species was 
taken with a fresh egg from a burrow at the top of a cliff on Egg Island, July 30. 
No other examples were seen at any time. 
Mr. Robert Ridgway very kindly examined the bird and under date of Sep- 
tember 30, 1902, wrote concerning it as follows: “The species is Oceanodroma 
leucorhoa , not cryptoleucura. The latter has the tips of upper tail-coverts black , 
not sooty gray, much broader, with edge running straight across instead of ob- 
liquely; the bases of the rectrices much more extensively, abruptly and more 
purely white. In fact a very different looking bird. Your difficulty has resulted 
from imperfect descriptions of O . leucorhoa which (my own included) ignore the 
dusky tip to the coverts, which, however, I find on examination of numerous speci- 
mens, is always present unless worn away , which is very often the case.” 
Oceanodroma furcata (Gmelin ). Forked-tailed Petrel. The fork-tailed petrel 
was first seen July 12 when several birds with their eggs were taken on Egg 
Island; July 30 two downy young were taken from burrows on the same island. 
August 19 the ship was anchored in Akutan Harbor, Akutan Island, and dur- 
ing the evening there was a heavy fog. This was the first time I ever saw birds 
come aboard ship in any considerable numbers and I shall transcribe my notes 
made at the time as being of more interest than anything I can write from memory. 
‘‘August 19. — At about 9:30 a petrel was brought down [to my room] by the 
quartermaster; in a short time three more and then an anklet were produced by 
Davie [O. M.]. Going on deck I found O. fiircata flying about the mast-head 
light — there were probably five or six insight. In a short time I had a dozen laid 
out. There was a moderate fog at first and as this thickened the birds increased 
in numbers. Fully a dozen were in sight like so many moths. They struck the 
rigging, bridge, and wheel-house and fluttered to the deck in a dazed condition. 
The fox [a young animal caught by the men and kept on deck] soon had a dozen 
or more in and about his box and the cats were running them over the deck. On 
all sides of the ship their cries were heard. They flew into the chart room, the 
fire room and down the ventilator to the main deck. Even from my room in the 
lower wardroom their cries are plainly audible.” 
This was the only night the birds came aboard ship during the whole summer. 
Phalacrocorax pelagicus Pallas. Pelagic Cormorant. First seen May 16 
when one was noted just outside of Dutch Harbor; May 29, eight to ten were seen 
on rocks in English Bay; a few individuals were also noted at Unalga, June 29; in 
Tigalda Bay, August 5; on Ugamak, August 13. No specimens were taken but 
those seen were probably of the above species. 
Merganser serrator (Linnaeus). Red-breasted Merganser. Three sets and a 
female of this species were obtained from Round Island in Beaver Inlet, July 4. 
Some of the birds deserted their nests as our boat reached the island. The first 
nest containing ten hard-set eggs was placed on the ground at the end of a pas- 
sage way thru the high grass, somewhat resembling a mammal runway. The 
eggs were covered, being buried in the loose grass and down which constituted the 
nest. The second nest, containing ten heavily-incubated eggs, was in thick tall 
1 This is probably the form ( O.beali ) described by Emerson in The Condor for March, 1906, page 54. — J . G 
