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some young birds in down, but the wind was still 

 stormy and cold, and we got little— four young Pintails 

 large enough to eat, and the old bird, a young Yellow- 

 headed Wagtail, young Eed-throated PiiDit, and young 

 Dunlin nearly full-fledged. 



We saw several Common Gulls and one immature 

 Larus cacJnnnans,''- besides adults. This young gull ap- 

 peared to be much browner, or yellower brown, than those 

 of the Common Herring Gull in the same stage of plumage. 



The Glaucous Gulls we shot the other day had the 

 legs and feet pale-flesh colour, with a tinge of pink, 

 the beak and round the eye straw-yellow, the point of 

 the bill pale horn colour, and a vermilion spot on the 

 angle of the lower mandible, the pupils blue-black, the 

 irides pale straw-yellow, the inside of the mouth pale- 

 flesh colour. The young, in down, appear to be less 

 spotted than those of the Common Herring or Lesser 

 Blackbacked Gulls or of the Greater Blackbacked Gull. 



This evening the gale from the northward still 

 continued. 



July 22. 



On Thursday, the 22nd of July, at 2.30 p.m. we were 

 on board the steamer outside the bar, en voyage for 

 Dvoinik. A large vessel from the sea is in sight, and a 

 pilot-boat from the cutter has passed. We think she is 

 the other English vessel. 



To-day Engel's hospitality shone forth in the absence 

 of Arendt, and our dinner this day was a delightful con- 

 trast to the absence of all food on our last trip to Kuja, 

 and the only really hearty good meal we have had since 

 leaving Ust Zylma. Thanks, good Captain, we are 

 indeed grateful. 



About 3 p.m. we went on board the English brig Ino, 

 of Newhaven, along with Captain Engel. The captain of 



■■'■ Bee Appendix under L. affinis. This is really L. affinis Beinhardt, 



