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July 27 Red-throated Loon : newly hatched young. 



« " Vega Gull : 5 days old. 

 Aug. 5 Red Phalarope : flying. 



" 6 Northern Phalarope : flying 



" " Spotted Sandpiper : flying. 



" " Pintail Dnck : 10 days old 



" " Kennicott's Willow Warbler : flying. 



" 9 Long-tailed Jager : flying. 



" 14 Limonites Subminuta : flying. 



" 21 Horned Puffin : newly hatched. 



" 22 Black -billed Plover : flying. 

 Sept. 5 Pacific Eider : half-feathered. 



The Yellow-billed Loon — though quite commonly seen in the bay and 

 a t sea — I never succeeded in locating as to the whereabouts of its nesting 

 place. I never once observed this bird in the lakes or lagoons, neither did 

 I see anv young in the fall of the year. 



On our excursions around in this country we naturally often met with 

 the natives — the so-called Tchoukchees. The greater part of those living 

 around the Anadir Bay are "deermen," i.e. : reindeer-herders just spending 

 the summer near the coast, ready to leave for the interior hundreds of miles 

 east on the first frost in the fall. But there aie also natives of the same race 

 who make their living solely by hunting and fishing in the bay and the 

 streams ; the salmon, which they dry in large quantity for the winter, being 

 the most important factor in their menu. Another great source of food sup- 

 ply is furnished by the caribou herds in the fall when the wild deer cross 

 in vast numbers to the south side of the Anadir river. The native hunters 

 wait for the deer at that time, hidden in light boats under the high banks 

 of the river, and when the animals in large bands are swimming the stream 

 they paddle out as far as they can into the herd, killing as many as they 

 can manage. No guns are used in this spoit as the reports from them would 

 frighten the other animals bringing up the rear. The deer are simply 

 killed with spears, weapons in the use of which the natives are very adept. 

 Brown bears are numerous up the rivers but rare on the naked flats along 

 the coast. I happened however to meet and kill one of these brutes only 

 a short distance from our camp at the bay ; and, by the way, it was the 

 bio-o-est and finest specimen of its tribe I ever stumbled over. 



The sad part of my story is now to tell. After some searching about 

 we found what would make an ideal winter camp on the north side of the 

 bay about twenty miles from our present place of abode. On a very nice 

 day we left the southern shore of the bay, which at this place is about ten 

 miles broad, with a heavy load in our dory; but only a few miles off the land 

 a strong wind began to blow from the south. In the middle of the bay we 



