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 3 6 THE CONDOR [ Vol. IV The low land bordering Norton Bay is c.ut by numerous creeks and tide guts and dotted with hundreds of small ponds of fresh water. These features are es- pecially characteristic of the marshes about Fallax Point. Occasional patches of old snow were found in sheltered spots of the higher hills and we had a slight flurry of snow on September 2 5. The present paper is based upon such birds as I was able to collect, number- ing about two hundred skins. No effort was made to secure the ducks, geese and gulls of which there were seen several species not here recorded. I preferred to confine my efforts to the smaller species as being a more fruitful expenditure of time than the skinning of larger and more common birds. The notes are fragmentary and unsatisfactory, a result of being made, for the most part, while engaged in other work, yet they may be of value as showing the STREAM NEAR SIGNAL CAIRN SHOWING SRUSH IN FOREGROUND AND SPRUCE WOODS ON MOUNTAIN SIDE exact distribution of land species in the territory visited. Even so much had been impossible but for the courtesies of my fellow officers, who spared no pains to af- ford me every aid consistent with the execution of their duties. I wish to record my obligations, especially to Captain Gilbert, chief of our party; to Assistant Harry F. Flynn, who has always taken great interest in my work; and to Mr. Arthur H. Dutton, our genial executive officer. The names of localities in this paper, are, for the most part, the same as were used by our triangulation party. SeEthES OBS.gv) o }Cc, Lunda cirrhala Corvus cotave principalis  Fralercula corniculata Zonolrichia coronala Uria lroile calif or nica .4 m modramns sandwic hensis ala ttdi itzts