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and coloured drawing can give any true idea of the lavish 
mixture of various colours exhibited in summer by the bill of 
Lunda cirrhata ; but I do not here repeat a description of the 
soft parts of this particular species, although I made a sketch 
of the bill, because they have already been given in detail 
by Dr. Stejneger. Realizing therefore the impossibility of 
attaining to exactness, I have thought it well not to amend 
the nomenclature of my original rough notes as regards the 
colours of the soft parts of the specimens, since after all the 
effect of the most elaborate scheme invented for the purpose 
cannot convey to the imagination one half the glories of some 
of these as seen in their original freshness. It must be 
borne in mind, however, that in many cases the colour of the 
same part varies in different individuals of the same species, 
even when obtained on the same date, so that when I have 
used different names for the same part of different individuals 
of the same species, I may often be quite correct in doing so. 
Colymbus lumme (Gunnerius). 
Nos. 1-2. Petropavlovsk, summer plumage (Mr. Jacobleff ). 
Brachyrhamphus perdix (Pallas). 
No. 3. Petropavlovsk (Mr. Jacobleff ). This species was 
not found in Kamchatka by Dr. Stejneger : it is, however, 
mentioned by Taczanowski. 
Cepphus snowi Stejneger. 
No. 4. In winter plumage, Petropavlovsk (Mr. Jacobleff). 
No. 5. Juv. Described by Dr. Stejneger from the Kuril 
Islands (Auk, xiv. p. 201, 1897). 
Lunda cirrhata Pallas. 
No. 6. ?, Petropavlovsk, autumn of 1897 (Mr. Jacobleff). 
Larus schistisagus Stejneger. 
No. 7. ¥ adult, Avacha Bay, July 16, 1896. Weight 
4 lbs. Colour of bill yellow, with a bright red spot at the 
angle of the lower mandible on each side, and the tips of 
both mandibles white; of iris lighter yellow than bill; of 
