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52. LOBIPES HYPEKBOREUS (Lillll.) CuV. 



81424 (3791). Port Clarence, Alaska, Sept. 6, 1880.' 



In small flocks, feeding at the margins of fresh- water lagoons. Four 

 individuals were shot. 



The spit at Port Clarence, where I collected birds, is long, narrow, and 

 curved. The width at the astronomical station of the " Yukon" party 

 must have been about three-fourths of a mile. The ground is level, and 

 walking good; there are numerous fresh lagoons of very palatable water, 

 around which birds collect. There are no trees except the very scrubby 

 dwarf willows. We found a few flowering plants, and manj^ exquisite 

 lichens. The shallow lagoons are well stocked with sticklebacks. Cen- 

 trophanes lappoulcus was common ; a few Plectrophanes nivalis were seen 

 and only one Saxicola amanthe. A wagtail was observed on the 6th and 

 again on the 8th of September, but too far off for identification. Lams 

 glaueescens was abundant, associated with kittiwakes. 



I saw here a bird which I supposed to be a small wren ; it appeared 

 unexpectedly, when my attention was fixed on other si:>ecies, alighted 

 not very far off, was marked down and diligently searched for in a place 

 where there was no apparent chance of escape, but unfortunately could 

 not be found. 



53. Grus CANADENSIS (Linn.) Temm. 



On the 18th of August, in the vicinity of the Diomede Islands, sand- 

 hill cranes were seen flying towards the American shore. 



On the 1st of September, Capt. E. P. Herendeen went ashore on the 

 east side of Choris Peninsula, and here he saw a sand-hill crane. 



64. Bernicla nigricans (Lawr.) Cass. 



81425 (3667) ad. <? . Near Icy Cape (Lat. 70° 13' N.), Arctic O., Aug-. 25, 1880. 



On the 22d of August, while at anchor 10 miles to the eastward of 

 Cape Lisburne, we first observed brant migrating southward; great 

 numbers of them passed us during the day. On the 25th of August 

 we found them very abundant on the brackish -water lagoons of the s^jit 

 near Icy Cape. 



Measurements taken from number 81425 in the fresh state are the 

 following: Length, 23.50; extent, 46.02; wiug, 12.87; tail, 4.19; bill, 

 1.31; head (from base of bill), 2.50; tarsus, 2.31; middle toe and claw, 

 2.25. 

 55. Mareca AMERICANA (Gmel.) Steph. 



81710 (3678) beads in alcohol. Eschscholtz Bay, Aug. 31, 1880. 



Two individuals were shot at Elephant Point, Eschscholtz Bay, Sep- 

 tember 2, 1880. 



