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Mr. E. Adams on the Birds of Michalaski. 
ing about the marshes. The natives value them for their 
quills^ as they use the back of the shaft to attach fishing- 
lines to the hooks. 
-j- Buffon^s Skua. Lestris parasiticus. 
Yunge-ukj Eski. 
[Stercorarius buffoni, Dali & Bann. p. 304.] 
Arrived on the 7th of May, after which some of these birds 
were always to be found near the stages for drying fish; here 
they seem to live, principally by plundering them. Some of 
them frequented the marshes, hunting about for eggs, and 
robbing the Terns and small Gulls. They bred about the 
dry knolls in the marshes. 
Northern Diver. Coly mbus glacialis. 
Too-o6-slikj Eski. 
[Colymbus adamsi, G. B. Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 167 ; Dali 
& Bann. p. 308.] 
The natives kill numbers of these birds at sea during the 
autumn. They have plenty of skins, both of old and young, 
which they convert into bags for their tools. I saw none of 
the birds myself; and the natives told me they did not arrive 
before the end of August. 
^ Black-throated Diver. Colymbus arcticus. 
Tun-oo-slik, Eski. 
[Colymbus arcticus, Dali & Bann. p. 307.] 
A few of these handsome birds were always to be met with 
after the first week in June in the shallow bays along the 
coast, where they keep up a continual screaming throughout 
the day. They are said to breed here; but I got none of 
their eggs, nor did I ever see them about the marshes and 
lakes inland. 
'f' Red-throated Diver. Colymbus septentrionalis. 
Kok-dr-uk and Kok-d-nok, Eski. 
[Colymbus septentrionalis, Dali & Bann. p. 307.] 
The first of these birds arrived on the 21st of May; and ’ 
soon afterwards most of the larger lakes had at least one pair 
of them as tenants. They seldom went out to sea, apparently 
