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THE CONDOR I VoL. VIII lJria tr0ile calif0rnica (Bryant). California Murre. Murres were seen about most of the islands and two 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. Sterc0rarius p0marinus (Temminck). Pomafine Jaeger. On September 9 a jaeger was seen bullying the gulls near Akun; it was possibly of the above species. Rissa tridactyla p011icaris Ridgway. Pacific Kittiwake. June i2 a large flock 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. On Ugamak, Artgust 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 t2 about 30 were seen off Ugamak; August I5, one was noted off Tigalda and four off Poa; two days later the species was abundant i?l 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 tenuir0stris (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 ?5 great numbers were seen west of Unalga and a few off Unalga the next day. Under date of August 2o I find the following respecting this bird as seen off Akutan: "Water like glass this morning and Puffin,zs 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. Under 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: