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body, flying with back slightly bent downward and rapidly 
beating pinions, was hardly ever out of sight. 
On August 22nd we steamed across to False Bay, an inlet 
of the western side of Karaginski Island facing the mainland.- 
Here another small collection of birds was made, to which 
the sportsmen of the party contributed such birds as the 
Scaup and the fine King Eider. Some white Geese were 
seen, but these, as well as some large black Ducks reported 
from Karaga Harbour, were not secured, and, besides the 
Ducks, the mainstay of the bag, were a few couples of 
Willow-Grouse. 
In the dense thickets of scrubby pine which clothe the 
island we were surprised to find small birds of several species 
rather plentiful, but the fact that we had come nearly to 
the end of our stock of cartridges did not improve our 
chances of procuring specimens in such a country. With 
a twelve-bore shot-gun and sporting cartridges charged 
with large shot our only weapon, and the quarry a set of 
little birds sitting at provokingly close quarters in thick 
bushes, the result of our efforts was often more disastrous 
to the poor birds than advantageous to our collection, and 
on more than one occasion we were strongly tempted to 
follow the example of our friends the natives—to lie down 
and eat berries. Still, it was near the end of our cruise, 
and no other cartridges were available, so we had to do our 
best, and succeeded in obtaining more or less mutilated 
examples of Accentor montanellus (Pall.), a young Lapland 
Bunting, a Pipit, Anthus gustavi Swinh., a Northern 
Chiffchaff, Pliylloscopus borealis (Bias.), and a Kamchatkan 
Nightingale, Erithacus calliope (Pall.). The locality forms 
an extension of the known range of all these species, and 
the Accentor is an addition to the Kamchatkan avifauna, 
it not having been previously obtained at any locality nearer 
than Amoor Land ( vide Brit. Mus. Cat. Birds, vol. vii. 
p. 654, where its habitat is given as from the Yenesei to 
the Amoor river). Richardson^s Skua was seen or obtained 
both at Karaginski Island and at Karaga; in other respects 
the birds were identical. We were disappointed not to meet 
