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The low land bordering Norton Bay is cut by numerous creeks and tide guts 
and dotted with hundreds of small ponds of fresh water. These features are es- 
pecially characteristic of the marshes about Fallax Point. 
Occasional patches of old snow were found in sheltered spots of the higher 
hills and we had a slight flurry of snow on September 25. 
The present paper is based upon such birds as I was able to collect, number- 
ing about two hundred skins. No effort was made to secure the ducks, geese and 
gulls of which there were seen several species not here recorded. I preferred to 
confine my efforts to the smaller species as being a more fruitful expenditure of 
time than the skinning of larger and more common birds. 
The notes are fragmentary and unsatisfactory, a result of being made, for the 
most part, while engaged in other work, yet they ma}" be of value as showing the 
STREAM NEAR SIGNAL CAIRN SHOWING BRUSH IN FOREGROUND AND SPRUCE WOODS ON MOUNTAIN SIDE 
exact distribution of land species in the territory visited. Even so much had been 
impossible but for the courtesies of my fellow officers, who spared no pains to af- 
ford me every aid consistent with the execution of their duties. I wish to record 
my obligations, especially to Captain Gilbert, chief of our party; to Assistant 
Harry F. Flynn, who has always taken great interest in my work; and to Mr. 
Arthur H. Dutton, our genial executive officer. 
The names of localities in this paper, are, for the most part, the same as were 
used by our triangulation party. 
SPECIES OBSERVED ON EGG ISLAND. 
LuJida cirrhata Corvus corax principalis 
Fratercnla corniculata Zonotrichia coronata 
Uria troile calif or7iica Annnodranuis sandzt’iclioisis aland inns 
