ria pelagica_ 212
Kurile petrel P.536 A.
Blue petrel.[77] Preface.
Goosander merganser No 465 _Mergus merganser_ 208
Smew No 468 _Mergus albellus_ 209
Whistling swan No 469 _Anas Cygnus ferus_ 194 A.
Great goose P.570
Chinese goose P.571 _Anas cygnoides_ 194 B.
Snow goose No 477
Brent goose No 478 _Anas bernicla_ 198
Eider duck No 480 _Anas molitsima_ ib.
Black duck No 483 _Anas spectabilis_ 195
Velvet duck No 481 _Anas fusca_ 196
Shoveler No 485 _Anas clypeata_ 200
Golden eye No 486 _Anas clangula_ 201
Harlequin No 490 _Anas histrionica_ 204
Mallard No 494 _Anas boschas_ 205
* Western No 497
Pintail No 500 _Anas acuta_ 202
* Longtailed No 501 _Anas glacialis_ 203
Morillon P.573 F. _Anas glaucion_ 201
Shieldrake P.572 D. _Anas tadorna_ 195
Tufted P.573 G. _Anas fuligula_ 207
Falcated P.574 I.
Garganey P.576 O. _Anas querquedula_ 263
Teal P.577 P. _Anas crecia_ 204
Corvorant No 509 _Pelecanus carbo_ 216
Violet corvorant P.584 B.
Red-faced corvorant P.584 C.

[42] Some doubt may be entertained of the propriety with which Captain King
has occupied so large a portion of his volume as two chapters, or
sections, with a subject, respecting which it is most certain, his
knowledge must have resulted from almost any thing else than his own
personal observation. There is force in the objection. But it must be
allowed on the other hand, that there was no inconsiderable inducement
to supply the public with a tolerable share of information concerning
a country which, distant and uncultivated as it was, seemed
notwithstanding to be entitled to more regard than had usually been
paid to it. Steller's work, of which he has properly availed himself,
had been but recently published, viz. in 1774, and in all probability
had not hitherto occupied much attention. The earlier accounts,
whether published separately as that of Krascheninnikof, an English
tra