Sibnne EMPEROR GEESE 1931 boat and are reliable informants, having resided at Akutan for many years. They stated that, this it was well high impossible to effect a successful stalk on roosting birds either by foot or in a small boat smaller engine power, they were quite easily approached in Pblin sight by a row boat, or any small boat powered by oars. Evidently the geese are quick to catch the slightest movement, odor or noise from the land, and are frightened by the sound of a motor but they will look upon a boat being rowed quietly and easily strictly up to them with a sort of stupid curiosity. Certainly, we had no difficulty in rowing up to the flock of three and getting to within 25 yds before Spring. Even our strenuous and recess- Dary efforts to keep the boat from hanging on the two adjacent rocks from the face of the waves did not disturb them. On the wet rocks and boulders of some promontory, the birds seem