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Mr. E. Adams on the Birds of Michalaski, 
A 
XXXIII .—Notes on the Birds of Michalaski, Norton Bound. 
By Surgeon Edward Adams. 
[This paper was sent us by Mr. H. Stevenson, to whom it 
was intrusted by relatives of the late Mr. Adams. As it refers 
to the birds of a region that has only recently been studied 
by American naturalists, and as the biographical notes are of 
considerable interest, we have no hesitation in publishing the 
paper as it stands. The chief authorities on the birds of 
these islands of the Pacific coast of North-western America 
are Messrs. W. H. Dali and H. M. Bannister, whose List of 
the Birds of Alaska, with Biographical Notes,^^ published in 
the ^ Transactions ^ of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, is 
doubtless familiar to many of the readers of The Ibis.^ We 
have added references to this paper where the species are in¬ 
cluded in Mr. Adamses list. It will be observed, from the 
date when Mr. Adamses observations were made (1850-51), 
that, had this paper been published at the time it was written, 
several interesting discoveries of more recent explorers would 
have been anticipated. 
Mr. Stevenson has kindly supplied us with the brief memoir 
of Mr. Adams which we now subjoin :— 
^^The late Mr. Edward Adams. 
The following particulars of the brief but eventful career 
of the talented author of this paper are gathered from a 
memoir which appeared in the ^Bury and Norwich Post'’ for 
December 17, 1856; Mr. Adamses death having occurred at 
Sierra Leone on the 12th of November of that year, at the 
early age of 32. 
The paper itself, found among other MSS. and drawings, 
was recently brought under the notice of Mr. Stevenson by 
Mr. William Adams, a brother of the deceased, now residing 
in Norwich. 
Mr. Edward Adams was born at Great Barton, near 
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, on the 24th of February, 1824, 
and was educated for the medical profession, passing the 
usual examinations with honour and credit. Ardently fond 
