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I believe that many of the geese and other water birds that JNIr. 

 Nelson found in such large numbers, now breed there very rarely 

 or not at all. 



Leaving the Yukon in July, I returned to Nome and rejoined the 

 Bear, the remainder of the summer being spent in cruising along the 

 coast. Stops were made at the following places on the dates 

 indicated : 



Golovin Bay, July 13 and 21. 



St. Lawrence Island, July 24 and 25. 



St. Lawrence Bay, Siberia, July 26. 



Teller Reindeer Station, Alaska, July 28. 



Cape Prince of Wales, July 29. 



Deering, August i. 



Chamisso Island, Kotzebue Sound, August i to 3. 



Cape Espenberg, August 5. 



Point Hope, August 7. 



Cape Dyer, August 7 (at 9 p. m.). 



Cape Lisburne, August 8. 



Wainwright Inlet, August 10 to 20. 



Point Franklin, August 18 and 20. 



Barrow, August 21. 



Golovin Bay, a narrow inlet surrounded by low hills, was a par- 

 ticularly favorable spot for small land birds. Low willows were 

 more in evidence here than at most places on the coast, and in them 

 were found several species not noted elsewhere. St. Lawrence 

 Island impressed me as a particularly promising locality and I would 

 gladly have spent more time there. At two places on the north side of 

 the island where landings were made, the land was high rolling 

 tundra. At the northwestern part, a native village is located on a 

 level gravel spit. Back of the village rise high cliffs in which Crested, 

 Paroquet, and Least Auklets, Pallas's Murres, Pacific Kittiwakes, 

 Glaucous Gulls, Horned Puffins, and perhaps Rodger's Fulmars, 

 were breeding. The natives are superior to any I saw on the main- 

 land. They are unusually clean, have substantially built houses 

 and good boats. The excellent English spoken by many of them, 

 and the evidence of their familiarity with the use of soap and water, 

 reflect great credit on the government school and its teacher. 



Near Deering, on the north coast of the Seward Peninsula, are 

 several rocky chfifs where Pallas's Murres and Horned Puffins breed. 

 Several Gyrfalcons were seen about these clififs and probably bred 



