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charttred for the purpose; arrived at Uyak Bay, on Kodiak Island, 

 May 5 and stayed at this place two days on account of stormy seas. 

 The parry arrived at Unga, May 8, and after taking guides and 

 (packers cm board left for Pirate Cove where they passed the 

 night. The next morning, at Broad Cape, Mr. Sykes killed the 

 mother and three ci:bs of the Museum's group of five Kodiak brown 

 bears. (The remaining bear, the male, was taken at Pavloff Bay. 

 June 2.) The party reached Pavloff Bay that night, and established 

 a base camp at the foot of Mount Pavloff the next morning. 

 They left Pavloff Bay June the sixth; having secured in all 17 

 kodiak brown bears, of which five are the property of the Univer- 

 sity's Museum and seven belong to the Brooklyn Museum, and 

 arrived at Cordova, June 12. 



At Cordova the party reorganized, the Oklahoma members 

 continuing on into the interior of Alaska and into Canada. We 

 left Cordova June 22 for Fairbanks, via the Copper River Railroad 

 to Chitina, thence overland 319 miles to Fairbanks, arriving June 

 2S ; and departed July 1 for Dawson via the Tanana and Yukon 

 rivers. We spent the fourth and fifth within the Arctic Circle, and 

 arrived at Dawson the eighth of July, where we left our heavy 

 laggage, returning to Fortymile Town the next day. The follow- 

 ng morning, July 10, we left for Jack Wade, going up the Forty- 

 mile River to Steel Creek, tT,jence .overland, making the trip 

 of about 54 miles in about 29 hours of actual travel. Specimens 

 were collected at Jack Wade and on the North Fork of the Forty- 

 mile River during the next three weeks. On the return trip to 

 Dawson five days were spent collecting at Fortymile Town. From 

 this place we went to Dawson and on up the Yukon to Fort 

 Selkirk where collecting was again resumed. 



The party, now augmented by two hunters from Oklahoma, left 

 Fort Selkirk, August IS, in a small gas boat for the big game 

 country. The Pel/ey and MacmiHan Rivers were ascended som.e 

 435 miles, the trip upstream occupying six days. The party collected 

 big game specimens in this country while several smaller specimens 

 were taken during the journey up and down the two rivers. The 

 party arrived at Whitehorse the night of September 28. The next 

 morning Mr. Sykes and his friends left for Skaguay and embarked 

 fur Seattle. The writer and Mrs. Crabb were unable to leave the 

 country until the next boat, October 12, on account of preparing 

 and shipping the specimens ; consequently we did not arrive in Nor- 

 man until October 25. This trip lasted six month and eight days and 

 during this time the party traveled a total of not less than 8.000 

 miles and secured the following specimens : 



