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Clangula claiij^ula americaiia, (Bonap.). AMERICAN 

 GOLDEN-EYE. 

 This species was the most common of all ducks seen. When 

 we first reached the mountains the ice was not all out of the ponds 

 and small streams, and there was scarcely an air-hole that did 

 not contain a pair of them. They had evidently begun nesting, 

 as large ovaries were found in several killed. 



Charitoiietta albeola, (Linn.). BUFFLE-HEAD. 



A common little duck found in the air-holes along frozen 

 streams and lakes. 



Histrioiiifiis liistrioiiiciis, (Linn.). HARLEQUIN 

 DUCK. 

 My Indians drew my attention to a pair of these ducks at the 

 mouth of the river as w^e were returning to Knik, June 6th. 



Oideinia perspicillata ? SURF SCOTER. 



Large numbers of Scoters were seen all over the inlet. 



Braiita canadensis, (Linn.). CANADA GOOSE. 



Common. When I first arrived at Tyonek, April 24th, they 

 were present in large flocks, and remained so up to the time I left, 

 May 2d. We saw numbers all along the route to our first camp, 

 twenty miles up Knik River. A few pairs were nesting about the 

 lakes at the base of the mountains. 



Olor columbianus, (Ord.). WHISTLING SWAN. 



Never before in the history of the oldest inhabitants of Cook 

 Inlet was there such a flight of swans as this year. We saw 

 flocks of about fifty each, and it was not uncommon for several 

 flocks of from six to ten to pass in a day. A pair nested in a lake 

 a short distance from our camp. 



Grus canadensis. (Linn.). LITTLE BROWN CRANE. 

 Several seen at the mouth of Knik River, May 7th. 



Gallinag-o delicata, (Ord.). WILSON'S SNIPE. 



Very common in the marshes about our camp, twenty miles 

 from the mouth of the river, where they were nesting. For hours 

 at a time they flew about a certain spot, seemingly to exercise their 

 wings. At short intervals they darted toward the earth, making 

 a loud whizzing sound as they descended. 



