165 Journal R.E. Johnson 1968 July 12 Amchitka Island, Alaska from the cockpit & using the regular 1:25,000 topo maps prestacked in the order in which they will be used. The Pacific coast SE of Alert Point is very precipitous and there are probably many colonies of cormorants on those huge & beautiful cliff faces, however there were very few adult eagles & no nests (see map) seen. On the other hand there were many adult eagles seen along the shoreline SE from Bird Cape to Chitka Point on the Bering coast and even though we found [illegible] few nests, the presence of eagles suggests that nests mature were present. Very few adult eagles were seen SE from Chitka Point to Crown Reefs Point. My total count of mature adult birds for the trip was 51. For immatures - 8. This differed somewhat from Bob Wood's data (he had more Imma., less matures) but the total count was about the same. Unlike me, he kept separate counts of the birds along the Pacific & Bering coasts & these confirmed the preceding idea that we saw more birds along the Pacific taken as a whole (but we also flew slower). Some nests appeared to have dead young in them or one dead & one live bird. These need to be checked carefully however. On one occasion I'm reasonably certain that a bird which was sprawled