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family. Dr. Bishop, of H.M.S. ' Linnet/ most fortunately 
secured one, and on examination it has turned out to be a 
most interesting form, differing, as might have been expected, 
from all the hitherto known forms of Nutcracker. 
The only other bird noted was a Sedge-Warbler, seen once 
in a marsh near the branch of Avacha Bay known as Bakova 
Harbour, and probably belonging to Acrocephalus ochotensis 
(Midd.), which Dr. Stejneger found to be “ rather numerous 
in the vicinity of Petropavlovsk.” 
On August 21st, 1897, we ran up Ukinsk Bay, on our 
way to Karaga Harbour. Leaving the Guillemots, Black 
Puffins, and Fulmars of Bering Sea at the entrance to 
the inlet, we found inside it birds of several species, mainly 
Gulls and a few Terns, numerous. Red-necked Phalaropes 
were very plentiful, as elsewhere in Kamchatkan waters, 
Ducks of more than one kind were abundant, and even 
the high northern latitude seemed to be no bar to the 
presence of the Albatross, Diomedea albatrus Pall., a fine 
male of which we put up from his lazy slumbers on the 
water. 
The shortness of our stay on shore at Karaga Harbour 
prevented us from making a large collection of birds. We 
found that, besides the birds already mentioned, a Crow— 
probably the same as that met with at Petropavlovsk—was 
fairly common, but no specimen was obtained. Close to the 
village flocks of large and very long-billed Curlews, Numenius 
cyanopus Vieill., found rich feeding on the berries or at the 
edge of a small lagoon. Two species of Gulls, Larus ridi - 
bundus and L. canus, were obtained, and the shooting party 
reported that they had found the breeding-place of one 
species in a marsh up the river. Of small birds, a Yellow 
and a Pied Wagtail, Budytes jiava and Motacilla ocularis , 
were also plentiful, and two or three other small species were 
seen. Wading birds of several kinds were also obtained, 
e. g. the Turnstone, the Mongolian Plover, a Stint, and 
two species of Tattlers. But perhaps the most conspicuous 
bird of all here, as at Petropavlovsk, was a large Diver, 
probably the red-throated species, of which the long uncouth 
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