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pearl-gray of the back and wings and the sharp black tips 

 to the flight feathers. Two species inhabit Bering Sea, 

 the Pacific kittiwake which we had encountered at various 

 points on the Alaska coast, and the red-legged kittiwake 

 which is found only in these northern waters. 



On the coast of Siberia, where we touched at Plover 

 Bay, the birds seemed limited to a very few species. 

 Snow buntings and Lapland longspurs were abundant, 

 and we first noted there the Siberian yellow wagtail. 

 This bird with its bluish-gray crown and back of neck, 

 its olive-green back and bright yellow breast, is a com- 

 mon inhabitant of the tundras about the shores of Ber- 

 ing Sea. 



In the waters of Plover Bay we found the pigeon guille- 

 mot abundant. It is a near relative of the murres but is 

 smaller, with a dark body, conspicuous white wing-patches, 

 and brilliant red feet. Pallas's murre was very common 

 and many kittiwake gulls were observed flying about the 

 bay. We also saw flocks of least auklets swimming on 

 the water, and noted for the first time on our journey 

 spectacled eiders the males with their conspicuous white 

 backs contrasted with their black breasts, and the females 

 plain mottled brown. 



At Port Clarence on the Alaska coast, where our next 

 stop was made, I had little opportunity of observing the 

 birds. The longspurs, snowflakes, and Siberian yellow 

 wagtails were the characteristic land birds of the tundras, 

 and the golden plover, in mottled coat of golden-brown 

 above and black below, with its loud, clear, flute-like call, 

 was fascinating to those who had the good fortune to en- 

 counter it upon its native heath. 



We reached Hall Island in the evening, and landed 

 upon a narrow gravel beach. A stream came down to 

 the sea at this point, making the high ground accessible. 

 On either side rose steep, unscalable cliffs of lava. Sea 



