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owes old stagers. The Islands are chosen for nestle by 

 the following kinds, such as sea-gulls, Alcidae: sea 

 parrots etc in small quantities Oceanodroma Procellaria. 

 In winter several species of ducks. The Mainland is used 

 to nestle, by a great number of marsh game (above 30 

 species of ducks and snipes) some swans and geese. To 

 the constant inhabitants must be reckoned, such as eagles, 

 falcons (three kinds), mountain partridges. The absence 

 of woods explains the scarcity of different species of sin- 

 ging and other birds etc. There are some kinds of birds, 

 which belong exclusively to the Behring Isl., the majority 

 are crows Corvus beringianus. The nearness of the Main- 

 land and the Aleutian Islands affords a great number of 

 strange birds to come and nestle there sometimes and by 

 mistake are driven into the faun of the Islands. The birds 

 on the Commander Islands proved to be the best known 

 of all other parts of the faun. 



The fish-riches of the sea, surrounding the Comman- 

 der Islands, require some one to undertake this industry. 

 The Americans, who occupied themselves in the sixtieth 

 years of the XIX century with catching cod-fish, left this 

 buisiness after the Alaska and Aleutian Islands went over 

 to them, and on these places they concentrated their 

 activity. The natives did not make any other use of the 

 fish — except for their own consumption. 



The cod-fish is usualh 7 of the same kind, as those 

 that are found on the shores of Europe and America, 

 namely the Gadus morrhua. The traders sort them into 

 several classes, they differ by their general outward ap- 

 pearance (large-headed, big-bellied etc). Another kind of 

 cod-fish is the saida, belonging to occasional visitors and 

 they do not go in considerable numbers be3 T ond the 

 bounds of floating ice. On the photograps both kinds of 

 cod-fish are represented. Gadus gracilis and G. chalco- 

 grammus are rare visitors. 



The halibut is of a little importance, as there are very 

 few of them and most likely the}' advance towards the 



