THE OOLOGIST 



were as follows: 



Yellow-billed Loon: Eggs laid on 

 bare tussock or hummock surrounded 

 by water on the tundra. 



Pacific Loon: Nest of wet grass 

 on sandy bank near water in a lagoon. 



Rer-throated Loon: Nest of wet 

 grass on a small island in marsh and 

 at the edge of lagoon. 



Horned Puffin: Nest of dry grass 

 in bottomm of a burrow near the top 

 of a cliff. 



Pigeon Guillemot: Nests of dry 

 grass on rocky cliff. 



Pallas' Murre: Eggs laid on the 

 bare sand of beach. 



Pacific Kittiwake: Nests of dry 

 grass on ledges of cliffs. 



Point Barrow Gull: Nest of dry 

 grass, lined with down out on the tun- 

 dra near lake. 



Long-tailed Duck: Nests of down 

 from bird in grass on small island in 

 a lagoon; others out in the open tun- 

 dra moss, made of down, usually near 

 water. 



Pacific Eider: Nests of down from 

 the bird, built on niggerhead rocks 

 near the sea; others of down made 

 in the moss out on the tundra. 



King Eider: Nest of down from 

 the bird sunk in the sand of the sea 

 beach. 



Black Brant: Nests of down from 

 the birds sunken in moss on small isl- 

 and in a marsh; others of down sunk- 

 en in the grass and moss near lakes 

 out on the tundra. 



Little Brown Crane: Nest of dried 

 leaves out on the tundra. 



Red Phalarope: No nests; eggs 

 laid on the bare ridges of the tundra. 



Northern Phalarope: Nest of dry 

 leaves of plants on the ground near 

 water on the tundra. 



Pectoral Sandpiper: Nest of dry 

 plant leaves out on the open tundra. 



Baird's Sandpiper: Nest of dry 

 plant leaves near water on the open 

 tundra. 



Pacific Red-backed Sandpiper; 

 Nests mere depressions in the moss 

 and grass of the tundra. 



Buff-breasted Sandpiper: Nests of 

 dry grass on side hill of rolling tun- 

 dra about seventy-five yards from a 

 lake. 



Pacific Golden Plover: Nests of 

 moss on slight ridge sunken in the 

 moss of the tundra. 



Turnstone: No nests; eggs laid in 

 depressions on mossy ridges of the 

 tundra. 



Snowfiake: Nest of dry grass lined 

 with fine grasses and feathers on the 

 ground; one nest under a building at 

 the station. 



Alaskan Longspur: Nests of dried 

 grasses and plant leaves lined with 

 finer grasses in tufts of dry grass on 

 the ground out on the tundra. 



Stone Chat: Nests of dry grasses 

 lined with feathers; one under a 

 building; another under a fiour cache. 

 INDIAN NAMES. 

 The Indian names of these birds so 

 far as reported by our collector are 

 as follows, viz.: 



Yellow-billed Loon Tu-d-lik 

 Red-throated Loon Kak-son 

 Pigeon Guillemot Ing-a-ray-uk 

 Pallas's Murre Crow-bill 



Point Barrow Gull Now-yuk 

 Pintail Ka-ru-gruk 



Old Squaw Duck A-ned-lik 



Pacific Eider A-man-lik 



Black Brant Nig-a-lik 



Pectoral Sandpiper Nov-vrek- 



yook 

 Baird's Sandpiper Noov-yooruk 

 Pacific Golden PloverToo-li-gak 

 Among the freak specimens re- 

 ceived with this shipment was an 

 egg, dark green and entirely un- 

 marked, and very smooth, of the Pa- 

 cific Loon; another was a dwarf egg 

 of Pallas's Murre measuring only 

 1.50x1.11 inches. And another was a 

 giant egg of Pallas's Murre showing 



