Alaska field notes, v1299
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415 Elmne Pacific Eider (3) 1931 enough to be Pacific. Oct. 31. E. Allutium Is. None seen during Sept. & Oct. and from local reports Dam not certain that they are present, but logically they must. One informant spoke of seeing a stiff with a large Eiders, one winter, and Swanson of the Kamaga Native States that large Eider were to be found seen in large flocks in Ulmruk pass immediately after the heavy storm of Sept 20. From notes of Commander E. D. Jones - captain of cutter "Northland" Oct. 24, 1931 "one or swimming near boat off Nome."