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body^ flying with back sliglitly bent downward and rapidly 

 beating pinions, was hardly ever out of sight. 



On August Ji2nd we steamed across to False Bay, an inlet 

 of the western side of Karaginski Island facing the mainland. 

 Here another small collection of birds was made, to which 

 the sportsmen of the party contributed such birds as the 

 Scaup and the fine King Eider. Some white Geese were 

 seen, but these, as well as some largo black Ducks reported 

 from Karaga Harbour, were not secured, and, besides the 

 Pucks, the mainstay of the bag, were a few couples of 

 Willow-Grouse. 



In the dense thickets of scrubl)y pine which clothe the 

 island we were surprised to find small birds of several species 

 rather plentiful, but the fact that we had come nearly to 

 the end of our stock of cartridges did not improve our 

 chances of procuring specimens in such a country. With 

 a twelve-bore shot-gun and sporting cartridges charged 

 with large shot our only weapon, and the quarry a set of 

 little birds sitting at provokingly close quarters in thick 

 bushes, the result of our efforts was often more disastrous 

 to the poor birds than advantageous to our collection, and 

 on more than one occasion we were strongly tempted to 

 follow the example of our friends the natives — to lie down 

 and eat berries. Still, it was near the end of our cruise, 

 and no other cartridges were available, so we had to do our 

 best, and succeeded in obtaining more or less mutilated 

 examples of Accentor montanellus (Pall.), a young Lapland 

 Bunting, a Pipit, Anthus gustavi Swinh., a Northern 

 Chiffchaff, Phylloscopus horealis (Bias.), and a Kamchatkan 

 Nightingale, Erithacus calliope (Pall.). The locality forms 

 an extension of the known range of all these species, and 

 the Accentor is an addition to the Kamchatkan avifauna, 

 it not having been previously obtained at any locality nearer 

 than Amoor Land {vide Brit. Mus. Cat. Birds, vol. vii. 

 p. 654, where its habitat is given as from the Yenesei to 

 the Amoor river). Richardson's Skua was seen or obtained 

 both at Karaginski Island and at Karaga ; in other respects 

 the birds were identical. We were disappointed not to meet 



