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November, i9o5. I THE CONDOR We found the flesh excellent, it being far superior to the ptarmigan in this respect and a delightful relief from canned meats. Lagopus lagopus (Linn.).--Ptarmigah were abundant along the whole coast wherever landings were made, except in the .spruce woods. Between the beach and the Signal Doris, on August t6 and ?8, there were numerous flocks usually consisting of two adults and from four to eight well grown young, the former often feigning lameness that the young nfight escape. Accipiter velox (Wils.).--The sharp-shinned hawk was seeu once when one flew over the Yztko?z anchored off Scaffold. [Accipiter atricapillus striatulus Ridgway.-At Fallax Point, August 54, a very dark example of this ('?) species circled several times about the signal, but I was unable to kill it.] Itali?eetus leucocephalus alascanus Towns.--The bald eagle was common about Unalaska Island where two were shot with rifles. Palco rusticolus gyrfalco (Linn.).--The gyrfalcon was observed but once, when a nest containing three downy young, was found on the side of Crater Mountain, east of St. Michael. The nest was nothing more than a number of loose sticks. A half grown ptarmigan was beside the young birds in such good order that I made a skin of it. Pellets scattered about the ground contained hair and teeth of a small rodent and numerous ?eathers. Remains of ptarmigan were also scattered about. The youngest falcon was carried on board ship where he lived for a month or more, befog fed on meat from skinned birds. The nest was found July tt. Palco peregrinus anatum (Bonap.).--An adult duck hawk was seen at Cape Denbigh, and a young full grown female was shot, August 8, at the same locality. A partially devoured specimen of Hudst?nian curlew was secured, upon wl?ich the young bird had been feeding. Pandi?n haliaetus carolinensis (Gruel.).--As Grinnell ? records the osprey from the Kowa!? River, it is probable that it is to be found in the interior of the Norton Bay region. [ did not observe the species myself, but members of the Geological Survey reported it as common along the rivers of Norton Bay. Asio accipitrinus (Pall.).--The short-eared owl was observed on Amaknak Island June 53, where one was flushed from its nest containing t r?o eggs. The nest consisted of a deep t?ollow on a hill side, and was neatly lined with grass. was told that the day before several eggs had been feint,red ?rom the nest. The original set was probably five or six. Sarnia ulula caparoch (Muell.)--This species was reported by members of the Geological Survey as being etnnmon in the woods of the interior along the rivers of Norton Bay. I observed the species but onee when anmlelit on the top of our tripod while we were building the signal scaffold. The stomach of this bird con- tained bones and hair of the mouse Evo?omys cl?wso?zi ctlctsce,zsis Miller. Pic0ides americanus (Swains.).?--August ?8 a female of this species was shot in the woods near Cairn; no other woodpeckers were seen during the summer. Peris0reus canadensis fumifr0ns Ridgw.--'l'i;e Alaskan jay was seen only in the thick spruce woods near Cairn. A female, taken August ?8, agrees with a large series from the Kowak River. C0rv?tsc0rax principalis Ridgw. '--The raven was regular in its occurrence through?ut the region. It was found at uearly all the triangulati?,n stations and several were seen about ea,'h ,,f the islan(ls vi-ited. At Amaknak they seem to Pacific Coast Avifauna. No. ?, p. 37, See Bangs, Attk. XVII; t9oo. p. ?3=.