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party devoted their efforts to the collecting of the bird and 
mammal fauna of the region, particular attention being given 
to the larger islands in the Sound. Camps were established 
successively on fourteen of the islands from which collecting 
operations were carried on. Besides these island localities five 
widely separated points on the mainland were used as collecting 
stations. 
The birds secured totaled 500 specimens, in which 84 species 
were represented. The species of mammals were much less 
numerous, only 18 being included in the collection of 665 spee- 
imens. As in the cases of her other Alaskan expeditions,’ all 
of the material gathered has been donated by Miss Alexander 
to the University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. 
The birds are reported upon by Joseph Grinnell in a separate 
paper to follow. 
For transportation about the Sound a ten-ton yawlrigged 
boat was taken along and launched at Cordova on the arrival 
there of the party on June 3. This vessel carried, besides the 
members of the party, the collecting and camping outfit. The 
method of work consisted in establishing camps at each loeality 
where collecting was to be done, the boat being in use for but 
short intervals as a means of transportation from place to place. 
ITINERARY. 
On May 27 we departed from Seattle on one of the Alaskan 
steamers going via the inside passage. At Yakutat we expected 
to find Allen Hasselborg, the fifth member of the party, but 
were disappointed on arriving there the first of June to learn 
that his dogged determination to collect brown bears had kept 
him in the mountains. He had secured at this time one adult 
female brown bear with two young. The eubs were captured 
alive and were at the time of our arrival under the charge of 
a missionary at Yakutat village. Arrangements for shipping 
them to the zoological garden at Golden Gate Park, San Fran- 
cisco, were made with the officers of the steamer. These young 
1 Field work in Alaska has been prosecuted as follows: In 1906 on the 
Kenai Peninsula; in 1907 in the Sitkan district; in 1908 in the Prince 
William Sound region; and in 1909 in the Sitkan district. 
