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feeding around the small pools ot water left by the melted 

 snow, which here and there were surrounded by sparse 

 tufts of vegetation, and we gave too much of our scanty 

 time to the searching of the marshy spots. Peary's photo- 

 graphs show that in Grinnell Land the Knot has its nests 

 on the more elevated slopes and surfaces covered by frost- 

 riven rocks and shales. The finding of a Knot's nest in 



NEST AND EGGS OF KNOT, CAPE SHERIDAN. 



{Photographed by the late Rear-Admiral R. E. Peary.) 



Grinnell Land is not an easy task, and it is highly commend- 

 able that Peary on his return from the North Pole to Cape 

 Sheridan, and in the midst of his engrossing and more 

 important duties found occasions to take the unique photo- 

 graphs here reproduced. 



The following letter from the great explorer explains 

 how the photographs came into my keeping, and likewise 

 the notes he made on each of them : 



