. Report upon natural history collections made in Alaska between the years 1877 and 1881 . Fig. 4 .. HALF^ NATU RAL S I X El . COL-OF=(ECD i^F^CarvT rNj/\T~l_JF=iE: BV E:,W NIEL-SOIN. Tig. a. PACIFIC EIDER, o III ri tc ri a ^-nigra. EIDER, male,^rctonetta fischeri. Fig. 3 WILLO^W PTARMIGAN, male in op as Cagopiis. Fig. 5 Fig. 4 .AMERICAN SCOTER, ide ni ia a tn e ri c arta . SURF SCOTER vers p i c i II at a . BIRDS. 81 come iuto the sheltered bays, sometiaies to the number of a thousand or more. At such timesthey show great uneasiness, and
. Report upon natural history collections made in Alaska between the years 1877 and 1881 . Fig. 4 .. HALF^ NATU RAL S I X El . COL-OF=(ECD i^F^CarvT rNj/\T~l_JF=iE: BV E:,W NIEL-SOIN. Tig. a. PACIFIC EIDER, o III ri tc ri a ^-nigra. EIDER, male,^rctonetta fischeri. Fig. 3 WILLO^W PTARMIGAN, male in op as Cagopiis. Fig. 5 Fig. 4 .AMERICAN SCOTER, ide ni ia a tn e ri c arta . SURF SCOTER vers p i c i II at a . BIRDS. 81 come iuto the sheltered bays, sometiaies to the number of a thousand or more. At such timesthey show great uneasiness, and frequently pass hours in circling about the bay, sometimes ahundred yards high and again close over the water, the shrill whistling of their wings making anoise which is distinctly audible nearly or quite half a mile. Until the young are about halfgrown the female usually keeps them in some large pond near the nesting place, but as Augustpasses they gradually work their way to the coast and are found, like the eiders of the same age,along the reefs and about the shores of the inner bays until a
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