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SUMMER BIRDS OF FORRESTER ISLAND, ALASKA. 



BY GEORGE WILLETT. 



Plates XIX-XX. 



During the period from May 23 to August 15, 1914, the writer 

 was stationed on Forrester Island, Alaska, in the interests of the 

 U. S. Biological Survey. What time could be spared from routine 

 duties was occupied in study of the bird life in this most interesting 

 section. The following account is taken from notes made at this 

 time. 



Forrester Island is of volcanic origin, and is between four and 

 five miles long by one and a half miles wide at the widest part. 

 It is heavily timbered with spruce, hemlock and squaw pine from 

 the water's edge up to the top of the island, 1395 feet at the highest 

 point. The island is situated in 54° 45' north latitude, being about 

 12 miles directly west of Dall Island and southwesterly from 

 Prince of Wales Island, and only a short distance north of the 

 Canadian boundary. There are several small islets lying a short 

 distance off the main island, the most important of which are 

 Petrel Island at the south end, and Cape Horn and Sea Lion Rocks, 

 and Lowrie Island at the north end. Lowrie Island is low and well 

 timbered, while Petrel Island is higher, more rocky and timbered 

 only toward the top. 



These are all included in the Forrester Island Bird Reservation, 

 as is also Wolf Rock, a bare rocky islet lying about ten miles north 

 of the north end of Forrester. With the exception of this latter 

 locality, all parts of the reservation were visited by the writer, 

 most of them several times. Practically all the time that could be 

 spared to ornithological investigation was devoted to the study of 

 the water birds, consequently the notes on land birds must be 

 considered very incomplete. There were more land birds in this 

 locality than I have ever notetl in any other section of southeastern 

 Alaska. As will be seen, however, the number of species is not 

 great. 



The climate is about the same as that of adjacent sections, being 



