that the chicks were peeping in the eggs, The young duck falcons we have been raising are acquiring their full plumage, They have been pulling off the downy filaments of their nestling plumage which appears to be fast to the ends of the feathers of the later plumage, The larger bird has now cleared nearly all the down off. It has been exercising its wings by flopping down and will probably soon begin to fly. When we arrived here at Coppin's Cove the 18th, Dixon and Hasselborg had several marneots laid out in a row; they varied greatly in color, and looked curiously like rough haired turiers in color and coarseness of pelage, Strawburris are just beginning to ripen, The mice are beginning to live on them Hasselborg says. Aug 2. We moved camp to Hawk Inlet, Admiralty Island yesterday, and set up the tents close to a vacant dog house, built by some miners. Mrs. S. and went into the house and as we came in something ran along the crack between two logs, Pieces of