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family. Dr. Bishop, of H.M.S. ' Liimet,' most fortunately 

 secured one, and on examination it has turned out to be a 

 most interesting form, differing, as might have been expected, 

 from all tlie hitherto known forms of Nutcracker. 



The only other bird noted was a Sedge-Warbler, seen once 

 in a marsh near the branch of Avacha Bay known as Rakova 

 Harbour, and probably belonging to Acrocephalus ochotensis 

 (Midd.), which Dr. Stejneger found to be "rather numerous 

 in the vicinity of Petropavlovsk.^' 



On August 21st, 1897, we ran up Ukinsk Bay, on our 

 way to Karaga Harbour. Leaving the Guillemots, Black 

 Puffins, and Fulmars of Bering Sea at the entrance to 

 the inlet, we found inside it birds of several species, mainly 

 Gulls and a few Terns, numerous. Red-necked Phalaropea 

 were very plentiful, as elsewhere in Kamchatkan waters, 

 Ducks of more than one kind were abundant, and even 

 the high northern latitude seemed to be no bar to the 

 presence of the Albatross, Diomedea albatrus Pall., a tine 

 male of which we put up from his lazy slumbers on the 

 water. 



The shortness of our stay on shore at Karaga Harbour 

 prevented us from making a large collection of birds. We 

 found that, besides the birds already mentioned, a Crow — 

 probably the same as that met with at Petropavlovsk — was 

 fairly common, but no specimen was obtained. Close to the 

 village flocks of large and very long-billed Curlews, Numenius 

 cyanopus Vieill., found rich feeding on the berries or at the 

 edge of a small lagoon. Two species of Gulls, Larus )-idi- 

 bundus and L. canus, were obtained, and the shooting party 

 reported that they had found the breeding-place of one 

 species in a marsh up the river. Of small birds, a Yellow 

 and a Pied Wagtail, Budytes jiava and MotaciUa ocularis, 

 were also plentiful, and two or three other small species were 

 seen. Wading birds of several kinds were also obtained, 

 e. g. the Turnstone, the Mongolian Plover, a Stint, and 

 two species of Tattlers. But perhaps the most conspicuous 

 bird of all hei*e, as at Petropavlovsk, was a large Diver, 

 probably the red-throated species, of which the long uncouth 



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