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killed in considerable numbers all along this coast and are said to be working 

 westward in greater numbers every year to the Colville River region and up 

 towards Point Barrow. The natives say that the deer here are smaller 

 than those east of the Mackenzie River. I have a very dark August specimen 

 taken at Demarcation Point, on the Canadian side, Yukon Territory. I 

 have a fair series of the two species of ptarmigan found here, all in the 

 mottled transition plumage, a few small mammals, including a peculiar 

 shrew from the Hula-Hula (at least different from any I have seen before). 

 I made a good many bird skins along the coast in iVugust and September. 



Captain Wolki of the "Rosie H." is something of an ornithologist, and 

 has collected bird skins and eggs in the Arctic Ocean for many years. *** 

 He knows the species very well and is apparently a very close observer. 

 He has a house on the Horton River, Franklin Bay, east of Baillie Island, 

 where he lived and traded for four years. He says he has a collection of 

 skins there now, including among others pomarine and long-tailed jaegers, 

 golden eagle, hawks, and gulls. He has taken great numbers of eggs of the 

 snow geese there, also Avhistling swan, American white-fronted goose, and 

 black brant, in fact, nearly all the northern species except Ross's snow goose 

 and yellow-billed loon. He says he saw one white pelican at the mouth of 

 Mackenzie River and six spoonbill ducks taken at Horton River, both spe- 

 cies being unknown to the natives. The Eskimo, by the way, distinguish 

 between the different species better than most white men, and have names 

 for nearly all the species. 



October 19. Mr. Stefansson left for the west to night with Billy Akpek 

 and his wife and expects to spend some time deer-hunting around the 

 Colville. I shall start east to-morrow with Ilavinerk and his wife in com- 

 pany with Capt. Wolki's outfit, bound for Herschel Island. We shall ascend 

 the Hula-Hula River just west of Barter Island for a few weeks hunting 

 for mountain sheep, together with any other specimens we can get in the 

 mountains. We shall stay until we get a good series of specimens, or get 

 starved out, then retreat to Flaxman Island and go westward from there. 



President Henry F. Osborn will attend the Darwin Memorial 

 celebration at Cambridge University, England, June 22-24, as the 

 delegate of the American Philosophical Society. Director H. C. Bumpus 

 will attend the same celebration as the delegate of the Museum and 

 then will go to Geneva, Switzerland, to represent the New York 

 Academy of Sciences at the 350th anniversary, July 7-10, of the 

 founding of the university there. 



