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the late Major Charles Bendire. Two volumes of this work, prepared 
by Major Bendire, have already been published by the National 
Museum and Smithsonian Institution. In order to obtain the neces- 
sary data to finish this comprehensive treatise, Mr. Bent intends to 
make a number of excursions to various out-of-the-way parts of 
North America where birds can be observed on their breeding- 
grounds. 
Se a 
Fic. 41.—Pallas’s Murres on Bogoslof Island. Photograph by Bent, July 4, 1911. 
In this connection a small party of naturalists made a brief visit 
to the Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea during the season of 1911, 
chiefly in the interests of the Smithsonian Institution and the Biologi- 
cal Survey of the Department of Agriculture, and especially to make 
a study of land and marine birds. Through the cooperation of the 
Treasury Department, the party was afforded transportation on the 
revenue cutter Tahoma. The party consisted of Messrs. A. C. Bent; 
Rollo H. Beck, of San José, California; Alexander Wetmore, of 
Lawrence, Kansas; and Fred B. McKechnie, of Boston, Mass. 
