NO. 3 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, IQI5 A7 
and reached Nome, Alaska, in July. A photograph of the Eagle, 
the schooner in which they sailed, appeared in last year’s report on 
explorations (fig. 25).' The same boat is here shown (fig. 59) in 
winter quarters. Collecting in Siberia began on July 31 at Emma 
Harbor, the innermost part of Plover Bay. A view of the harbor 
and its surroundings is given in figure 60. After a week’s work 
here the party went north through Bering Strait and then west along 
the north coast to Nizhni Kolymsk near the mouth of the Kolyma 
River. They arrived here about the end of August and established 
Fic. 60.—Emma Harbor, Siberia. Photograph by Amory. 
permanent headquarters. Large collections were made at Nizhni 
Kolymsk during the autumn and winter, while from this point as a 
base special trips were undertaken up the Little Anyui River (Sep- 
tember 6 to 16, November g to 26, and December, 1914), up the 
Kolyma to Verkhni Kolymsk (March and April, 1915), and to the 
foothills of the Tomushaya Mountains west of Verkhni Kolymsk 
(May, 1915). In August and September Mr. Amory with the Eagle 
made the return voyage to Nome. 
As his part of the results of the expedition Mr. Amory turned 
over to the National Museum 365 mammals, 264 birds, and various 
miscellaneous specimens principally of plants, fish, and birds’ eggs. 
Most of this material was prepared by Mr. Amory himself, though 
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