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plentiful ; they were, I supposed, for the most part of this species, 

 for they were comparable in size as well as in general form, and 

 too, salmon the usual source of food had not yet begun running. 

 No remains of either bird or mammal were found, although varying 

 hare, ptarmigan, many kinds of waterfowl, including flocks of 

 Aleutian sandpipers, which are rivaled in size only by our flocks 

 of blackbirds and crows, were abundant and could easily have l^een 

 caught by the parents. 



After leaving the coast the writer went north from Cordova 

 to the mouth of the Tanana river and up the Yukon to Dawson 

 and from there back to and up the Fortymile river; spending three 

 weeks in the Jack Wade and Fortymile country, during July, with- 

 out seeing a single eagle ! He then went on up the Yukon to old 

 F"ort Selkirk, from whence he pushed some 465 miles up the 

 Pelley and Macmillan rivers into the South Fork of the Macmillan 

 river, in the Yukon Territory, spending 29 days in this vicinity. 

 After returning to Fort Selkirk he took passage up the Yukon to 

 Whitehorse, and embarked at Skaguay, October 12, without having 

 seen a dozen eagles since leaving Cordova, June 20. This leads him 

 to believe that eagles are not sufficiently numerous in the interior 

 of Alaska to do any appreciable damage to the few settlers and 

 the game of that part of the Territory. It is, however, probable that 

 eagles are more numerous in the interior during the winter and 

 early spring, but why they would leave the open water of the 

 coast for the frozen interior recpaires an explanation. 



A correspondent who has had unusual opportunities to make 

 extensive observations on the eagles in Alaska, writes that he has 

 observed these birds eating rabbits, ptarmigan, grouse, martin, fish, 

 shell fish, and on one occasion, May, 1913, he saw an eagle kill 

 a pet fawn, of the Alaska deer, by striking it in the small of the 

 back. 



He states that Mr. Henry Carsteeins of Healaly, Alaska, Super- 

 visor of the Mount McKinley Park, is convinced that eagles there 

 kill the young of mountain sheep. This correspondent watched 

 eagles to find their nests, in the spring and summer of 1919, locat- 

 ing over thirty and killing the young. "There were in most every 

 one (of these 30 nests) duck and bird feathers. In one I found a 

 partly eaten young fox, and tail of martin in another * * * j 

 never have examined their stomach as they are so unsanitary I 

 hate to touch one." 



The territorial government o f Alaska enacted an unrestricted 

 law, in 1918, offering a bounty of fifty cents a head for eagles, 

 either the golden or the bald-headed species. In this way Alaska 



