July 20 - 1875 one of this kind that fell on land -- though they did for a few minutes one [illegible] that dropped in the water. In contrast with Musket (See July 1874), the terms here seemed to be on perfectly good terms with the C. atricilla. The latter after I had killed several of this number, collected together in a loose body and breasting the strong wind with just sufficient flapping to keep their position remained in the air for during the rest of the afternoon in one place at times in -- bulging in a wild burst of demonic laughter. Among the tall grass were many path and little openings trampled down by the birds but no nests now found. My boatman brought me a young gull only a few days old which he said he had found on the rocky beach at the foot of the cliffs. It keep up a continuous querulous cry of hunger or distress and when put down afford either able or unwilling to walk. The Arctic terns when wounded were very fine and bit my hand quite forcibly; this I had never noticed with the other species. Both sexes of S. macrorhynchos menbachii; as shown by the bare spots, only the first with C. atricilla only the young bird shows them. Both Messrs. Smith and Willey assured me upon my return to the city that petrels (probably Y. beachii) bred on the smaller island.