CONTENTS 
Introduction . 3 
Approval bv Commissioner P. P. Claxton. 5 
South-Coast District . 9 
South-coast water-birds, 10; larger land-birds, 13; sparrows and small 
birds, 15. 
Wooded Interior District . 16 
Shore-birds and game-birds, 17; falcons, eagles and owls, 18; woodland 
species, 20; finches and small songsters, 22. 
Arctic Coastal District . 26 
Asiatic visitors, 27; braving an arctic winter, 28; bird-life of the Sea 
Islands, 32; bird-year at St. Michaels, 34; spring and summer on the 
tundras, 37; notes by the editor, 43. 
Aleutian District . 45 
Land-birds of the Aleutian chain, 47. 
The Tufted Puffin . 49 
The Crested Auklet . 53 
The Emperor Goose . 57 
The Hudsonian Curlew . 62 
The Willow Ptarmigan . 64 
The Alaskan Longspur . 68 
COLORED PLATES 
Crossbills. Frontispiece 
Alaskan Longspur . 17 
Willow Ptarmigan . 31 
Hudsonian Curlew . 41 
Tufted Puffin . 49 
Crested Auklet . 55 
Emperor Goose . 59 
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT 
Breeding Colony of California Murres . 8 
Map of Faunal Districts in Alaska . 9 
Pallas's Murres on Bogoslof Island . 32 
Pacific Kittiwakes on Walrus Island . 38 
Cormorants on Walrus Island . 46 
Auklets on Pribilof Islands . 54 
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