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At Port Clarence the bird was common in small flocks, feeding on 

 seeds, usually near the small lagoons which are present on the spit. 



At Cape Lisburne and 10 miles to the eastward I observed numerous 

 examples on the 21st and 22d of August, feeding, as usual, on seeds of 

 species of Saccifraga, and congregating in small flocks. 



At Poiut Belcher, August 27, there were more of this species than at 

 any other place visited by us. They were, as elsewhere, feeding on 

 grass seeds and the seeds of flowering plants, among which Saxifraga 

 was most common. Number 81358 of this lot is worthy of mention ou 

 account of the deformity of its bill; the gonysis nearly twice as long as 

 the culmen and decidedly hooked. 



19. Passerculus sandwichensis (Gmel.) Baird. 



81687 (3501) alcoholic. Belkoffsky. Aliaska, July 23, 1880. 

 81371 (3590) 5 ad. Belkoffsky, Aliaska, July 23, 1880. 

 81370(3881) 2 ad. Chemoffsky, Uualashka, Oct. 1, 1880. 



Moderately common at Belkoffsky as well as at Chernoffsky, on the 

 island of Unalashka. Also common during our stay at Iliuliuk, on the 



20. Passerculus sandwichensis alaudinus (Bp.) Ridgw. 



(3353) <? ad. Chugachik Bay, Cook's Inlet, July 1, 1880. 



(3354) 9 " " " " " " " " 



(3355) 9 " " " " " " " " ^ 

 81372(3356) 9 ad. " " " " " " " 



(3496) ^ ad. St. Paul, Kodiak, July 13, 1880. 

 81369 (3497) ^ ad. St. Paul, Kodiak, July 13, 1880. 

 81368 (3762) <? ad. Chamisso Id., Kotzebue Sound, Aug. 31, 1880. 



The spit in Chugachik Bay, on which I collected birds July 1, 1880, 

 is low and level, its beaches higher than the interior. At some high 

 tides the sea breaks over and carries with it immense numbers of fish, 

 which are left stranded when the waters recede. This occurred a few 

 days before our visit, and we saw thousands upon thousands of fishes 

 lying uncovered on the ground. Great quantities of drift-wood are 

 found here. Wild wheat abounds, and there are many pretty flow- 

 ering plants, among which are serrana, violets, chickweed, vetch, and 

 Jacob's ladder. There is also a little grove of Sitka spruces, in which I 

 found the redpolls {JEgiotlms) and thrushes. Passercnlns was quite 

 abundant in the wild wheat. On this spit was found the young eider 

 which I have numbered in my catalogue. 



On the 2d of July we visited Glacier spit, distant 9 miles from our 

 anchorage. Here a pair of eagles had a nest on one of the tall pines. 

 A small plover, resembling the killdeer and with similar actions, was 

 shot but badly mutilated and finally lost. 



The specimen of Passerculus obtained on Chamisso Island was the only 

 one seen there. 



