46 if captain Billings. |^tf/y ly, 



Amphibeoui animals. 

 Some new species of seals and sea bears. 



Birds. 

 A new species of large eagle, with some new 

 species of auks and puffins. 



Drefses from the island of Kihtak, not visited by 

 captain Cook, who took it to be part of the Ameri- 

 can continent, so that every thing from it is new t9 

 Europe. 



1st, A man's drefs made of the flsin of the mus ci- 

 tellus of Linnaeus, or Ca^an marmot of Pennant, the 

 souslik of the Ruf-ians, but a thicker and better fur 

 than the variety which this country furnifties, al- 

 though little different from it in other respects. 

 This handsome spotted fur, has no bad effect in form 

 of a long close garment, which must be put over the 

 head to get it upon the wearer, as must indeed all 

 that we saw. A painted wooden head drefs, exactly 

 in form of an Englifh sportsman's stiff velvet cap, ex- 

 cept that a sort of face was carved on the crown 

 of it : probablj this head piece is intended for war. 



2d, A festival drefs, of young sea bear fkins of 

 great beauty, and prettily ornamented with varie- 

 gated beads. 



3^, A drefs of the fkins of the alca impennis of 

 Linnjeus, or great auk of Pennant, of a fine cinereous 

 colour. 



^th, A species of coverlid, or pofiibljr a fhawl, 

 made of beaver hair, curiously wrought on a wor- 

 sted ground, so as to resemble a velvet fhag, ex- 

 tremely soft and warm, of a fine dark cinamon co- 

 lour, and fringed with thick twisted threads of th^ 



