Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
come up flying.
492. Pacific Kittiwake
A flock of 200 or 300 kittiwakes
were feeding and sitting around on
the ice bergs near the mouth of a creek.
Two were secured on July 13.
44. Glancous-winged Gull.
Common.
123. Pelagic Cormorant.
Common among the ice bergs
where they were fishing.
165. White-winged Scoter
Common.
223 Northern Phalarope.
Affocks of 400 or 500 were seen on
the way over. One was shot on
July 17.
263. Spotted Sandpiper.
A & and set of 4 incubated eggs were
secured on July 14. The nest was
under two little willows on a sand flat
It was just a small hole 3 in. in diameter
and 1 inch deep lined with dry willow
leaves. The & was very artful and
made no noise