Gilmar CRESTED AUKLET (2) 1931 handled gently it was quite content to sit on ones shouderd if within a room. When I left the boat, it was contentedly paddling around in a pink fuel of water in the sock bay. Oct. 2 Unalaska, Unalaska Is., Aleutian Is., Alaska These birds evidently winter in the western Aleutian Is. and are subject to periodic plagues (at least occasional conditions that decimate the population). The following is from Capt. Henry Swanson: Four years ago, (1927) in the writer, the shores of the islands, to the west of here were covered on the Bering Sea side by count- less thousands of dead Crested Auklets. The windrows of dead birds were largest after a North storm but the number of bodies was always high at any time during that writer. This is the only time he has ever seen such a phenomena and as he described the birds particularly by the plume on the head, there seems