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[Page 42] Kadiak-Kadiak I. We arrived at about 3 P.M. after passing thro [sic] beautiful rocky narrows with Glaucus W. Gulls, Kittiwakes, tufted puffins, V.G. + Western double crested Cormorants (Ph. A. cincinatus), pigeon guillemots apparently breeding, and also some kind of Murre. A Kadiak Song Sparrow greeted us from the east of the wharf house Š just a regular S.S. songŠas have been all the others seen so far - tho' the bird looked big. Dr. Fisher and I piled off as soon as possible, thro' the little town, + found Savannah Sparrows are abundant, as were also golden crowned Sp. + Townsend's. On the low marshy alder-covered downs all these birds were very common, + yellow + pileolated W's. F. got a pine siskin. We then started to climb the mt. behind the town, in the hope of seeing some ptarmis, + and snowflakes, etc. After a long climb + no luck we had started back to the ship, when we heard a purple-finch-like warbling call, + looked up to see 3 fine pine grosbeaks, 2 [female] + 1 [male]. One of the [males] broke into a flight song-very like a purple-finch only clearer, + not so long and varied. Had a hard chase and several chances-but failed to get any. [Page 43] the Gold-Crowned Sps were singing very sweetly, as they always do, and, in company with the dwarf hermit + Alice's thrushes, made a trio of bird-music so sweet that it was hard to imagine anything lacking. The Townsend's sometimes sang so richly that the ordinary strong "twewing" notes were as resonant as a tanager's notes, + both F. + I remarked at the same moment "that sounds like a tanager". The birds seen so far here are Unalaska Sparrow Red Poll Linnet Oyster catchers (M.H.) West. Canada Goose (5, tame, with domestic) Titlark |
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