373 Glaucous Pelagic Cormorant (?) 1931 slow lumbering sort of fashion but more often they scuttle out and away like so many independent individual minds. Oct. 26. N. Akutan I., E. Alutuins. While crossing the rough lumpy stretch of water between North Head and Java Point on Akutan I., as I was enroute to Unalaska on the "Picaroon," I noted hundreds of Cormorants along the rocky rugged shore. Such numbers were not present when I came east on Oct. 7, and Hall mentioned that he did not notice them on the 15th. Thus it seems likely that they have recently gathered for some migrational purpose or perhaps by coincidence. Literally there were hundreds! They wheeled about in flight in a haphazard disconcerting fashion. They appeared to be in pursuit of such bewildering antics as perhaps the sudden presence of the boat was responsible for the aimless circular flying, many of them taking wing in