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men who were skinning a bear. But ordinarily they were shy. 
One was observed at the head of Port Nell Juan, August 16. 
Heller reports it from Knight Island, Storey Island, and Valdez 
Narrows, and Miss Alexander from Valdez, August 29, and along 
the Eagle Government Trail, August 30. 
Cyanocitta stelleri stelleri (Gmelin). Steller Jay. 
Thirteen specimens (nos. 1249 to 1261) were procured: six 
from Cordova Bay, two from Hawkins Island, one from Hinchin- 
brook Island, one from Montague Island, two from Knight Isl- 
and, and one from Port Nell Juan. These appear to present 
no tangible points of variation among themselves, beyond what 
is aseribable to age; nor can I distinguish the series as a whole 
from a still larger series from the Sitkan district of southeastern 
Alaska. The specimen from Northeast Bay, Hinchinbrook Isl- 
and (collected June 25 by A. M. Alexander) is a bob-tailed 
juvenal. In its otherwise sooty brown throat are ten pure white 
feathers, showing an individual tendeney towards albinism. 
The species was abundant and generally distributed through- 
out the region as shown by the following list of record stations: 
Hawkins, Hinchinbrook, Montague (at all points visited), Green, 
Latouche, Knight, Chenega, Hoodoo, Dise, Eleanor, Naked, and 
Storey islands, and at Port Nell Juan, Cordova, and Valdez 
Narrows. It was often judged to be the most abundant of the 
land birds. 
Corvus corax principalis Ridgway. Northern Raven. 
Ravens were characteristic of the Prince William Sound 
region, as elsewhere in the coastal regions of Alaska. The fol- 
lowing record stations were established: Cordova Bay, Valdez 
Narrows, head of Port NeN Juan; and Hawkins, Hinchinbrook, 
Montague, Green, Latouche, Knight, Chenega, Dise, and Eleanor 
islands. At Zaikof Bay, Montague Island, several families were 
in evidence, and these were doubtless responsible for the fish- 
bones found seattered through the woods. 
The single raven obtained on the expedition (no. 1120, juve- 
nal male) was shot in this vicinity. It is apparently full- 
grown, and measures: wing, 395; tail, 245; eulmen, 72. It 
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