A Second Record of the Cassin Auklet at Portland, Oregon
A Second Record of the Cassin Auklet at Portland, Oregon.-On January 13, 1948, Jack Marks, Director of the Portland Zoo, brought to my office a very emaciated and very weak Cassin Auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus). The bird had been captured by hand during the night before as it wandered about on the Terminal Docks along the Willamette River in the northern part of the city. Marks had tried to force-feed the auklet without success. It. died on the morning of January 13. The stomach was entirely empty. The specimen proved to be an adult female in good winter plumage but without a trace of fat on skin or body. It has been prepared as a study skin.
The only previous record of the occurrence of the Cassin Auklet inland from salt water in Oregon with which I am familiar is of a bird found on the Willamette River near the above location which was brought to me on October 4, 1921 (Birds of Oregon, 1941:316).-STANLEY G. JEWETT, Portload, Oregon, January 29,1948.
