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DESCRIPTIONS OF LOCALITIES. 
By FRANK STEPHENS and JosEPH Dixon. 
Windfall Harbor, Admiralty Island—Windfall Harbor is a 
bay eut off from the west side of Seymour Canal by Windfall 
Island, the latter being about a mile and a half long and com- 
paratively flat. The main part of Admiralty Island hes west 
of Seymour Canal, but Glass Peninsula is in plain sight across 
the canal to the eastward. We made camp in a little cove oppo- 
site Windfall Island at noon, April 17. 
The precipitous mountains that surround the harbor on the 
south and west rise almost from the water’s edge, and are heav- 
ily covered with spruce and hemlock up to timber-line, which 
averages in altitude about 1500 feet. There is a fringe of alders 
along the beach, and in many places in the forest there are thick 
patches of huckleberry and devil-club, particularly the latter. 
Birds and mammals were most abundant about the mouth of 
the creek; during the early morning hours many land birds 
came down on the beach to feed. The areas of fallen timber 
which are so conspicuous and which gave the harbor its name are 
not very productive of animal life. 
At the time of our arrival snow was four to six feet deep on 
the level and covered all the region except the beach below the 
reach of high tide. Scareely any plants had come into bloom by 
the time we left, May 19, and the few noted were found only 
along the beach. We were in time to see the spring migration 
of water birds, which were extremely numerous for a time. 
Land birds were relatively scarce in both species and indivyid- 
uals. Mammals were few in species, and with but one or two 
exceptions in individuals also. 
Mole Harbor, Admiralty Island—Mole Harbor is a bay on 
the west side of Seymour Canal, about twenty miles south of 
Windfall Harbor. It is about two miles deep by a-mile and a 
half wide. Much of the inner end of the harbor runs dry at 
