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_ mon and I sometimes saw four or five at a time around the small ponds. 
I collected one in the light color phase which when held up by the feet 
vomited crow berries. 
Rissa tridactyla pollicaris. Paciric Kirriwakn.— They were nest- 
ing on a rocky islet in the bay and had their nests on shelves and tops of 
rocks as close together as they could be placed. They allowed me to make 
a close approach and gather a mess of eggs which our menu was sadly in 
need of. On June 17, the nests contained some two and others three eggs 
and part of them we found to be in the process of incubation. As we 
approached the island a half dozen of cormorants sat on the rock looking 
for all the world as some one has remarked “ like black bottles.” 
Larus glaucescens. GuLAUCOUS-WINGED GuuLu.— Were here but in 
no great numbers. 
Larus schistisagus. Siaty-sackED GuLu.—I noted but one or two 
here. 
Larus argentatus. Herring Guiu.— This gull has hardly ever 
been out of sight since leaving Seattle. They followed the steamers, the 
various canneries had immense colonies and here the beach and ponds 
were alive with them. They had selected one pond with boggy shores 
and small islands for a breeding ground. On May 27 I found on the 
bank two nests containing eggs — one with two and the other three eggs. 
There were probably more nests on the little islands but I was unable to 
reach them. On June 29 there were some young on the pond. 
At a salmon saltery where I spent a few days after the 15th of July I 
watched these gulls feeding. The salmon were split and dressed on a 
staging over the water close to the beach and all undesirable parts tossed 
overboard and the great bunches of eggs hardly reached the water before 
the gulls would have them and two or three gulps were sufficient to put 
them out of sight. 
Larus brachyrhynchus. Suort-BitLep Guuu.— This gull was here 
and associating with the Herring Gull. Was nesting at the same pond. 
Sterna paradisea. Arctic TeRN.— Positively the most graceful bird 
I saw on this trip and the only representative of the family here. They 
were here in limited numbers but never failed to make their presence 
known either by their rasping cries or their acrobatic flying. They have a 
habit of remaining in a fixed position in the air supporting themselves 
entirely by their vibrating wings with the balance of the body stationary. 
They do this over both land and water and from this position often 
dive into the water for fish disappearing entirely for two or three seconds 
atatime. I noted that they did not always catch their prey. 
They must breed here for I saw them almost every day of my stay. 
Fulmarus rodgersi. Ropcrr’s Futmar.— This bird while undoubt- 
edly coming into the bay probably has no justification for being introduced 
here but the capture of one by rather unusual methods is my apology. 
On the 26th of July while the coast guard steamer ‘ Unalga’ in which I was 
travelling to Seward, was to the eastward of the Shumagin Island a young 
