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with any Eagles on the island, as it had been suggested 
that the rare Haliaetus hypoleucus of Ridgway might occur 
there. But the western side of the island, is quite unsuit¬ 
able for Eagles, and if they occur at all it must be about 
the cliffs of the Bering’s Sea coast. 
We left Karaginski Island on our way south to Japan at 
6 a.m. on August 24th, and reached Petropavlovsk at about 
noon on the 27th. The journey was uneventful, both as 
regards ornithology and otherwise, the only incident of 
interest to a naturalist being the visit of a Turnstone* to the 
ship at 6.30 p.m. on the 28th, at a time when we must have 
been somewhere in the neighbourhood (and probably north) 
of Cape Kronotski. 
I append a list of the species brought home (69 speci¬ 
mens), most of which are now in the collection of the 
British Museum of Natural History. For 17 of the skins 
I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Jacobleff, of Petro¬ 
pavlovsk. I am also under an obligation to Dr. R. Bowdler 
Sharpe and Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant, of the Bird Depart¬ 
ment of the British Museum of Natural History, who were 
good enough to identify for me the more difficult species. 
Mr. Howard Saunders has also examined the Tern, Gulls, 
and Skuas. 
Wherever possible I have tried to give a description of 
the colours of the legs, feet, claws, iris, and bill of the speci¬ 
mens as noted down after they had been shot. I have also 
added the tints of the inside of the bill and of the fauces, the 
latter of which, so far as my experience goes, are compara¬ 
tively seldom alluded to or noticed by naturalists, although 
they are often exceedingly beautiful, and sometimes, as in the 
case of the Guillemots, of quite unexpected tints. To give 
correct names to all the varied shades and hues of colouring 
is, I fear, beyond my powers, and the difficulties of describing 
specimens without a brush and paint are almost insurmount¬ 
able. To select one instance alone, nothing but an elaborate 
* Another Turnstone came on board the ship on August 31st, soon 
after we had left Avacha Bay for Japan, and on the same day a party of 
Curlews flew over, flying high in the same direction as the ship. 
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