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18th brought the first Lapland Longspurs and Golden-crowned 

 Sparrows, and the 21st the first Parasitic Jaeger. On the 22d a 

 number of Golden Plovers arrived in pairs, their mellow calls sound- 

 ing from every side as they sought the bare spots on the tundra or 

 chased each other over the snow drifts. One Wandering Tattler 

 also arrived on this date. 



One Bristle-thighed Curlew was seen on the head of the Nome 

 River on the 23d. Here also I met with quite a flight of Hawk 

 Owls migrating northward. At no time during the day were they 

 absent from the landscape, and often five or six were seen at one 

 time. 



On May 24 I took a nest and set of four eggs of the Hoary Red- 

 poll, from a leafless arctic willow that reached but two feet above 

 the snow. The eggs were so far advanced in incubation that they 

 could not be saved. No attempt has been made to tabulate the 

 migration further than to note the arrivals in a general way. As 

 a rule I think the land birds became abundant a day or two after 

 the first arrival was noted. There was, however, a straggling band 

 that brought up the end of the procession long after the movement 

 had to all appearances ceased, as was attested by my finding a num- 

 ber of Lapland Longspurs on each of several days spent with the 

 Eskimos hunting walrus in the ice pack fifty miles or more south of 

 the peninsula. 



