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passing along the bluff on the opposite side of the Is. from Ounalaska. I was surprised to hear a long whining mew almost exactly like that of a small kitten calling its dam. Looking along the face of the bluff it was with some difficulty - that I distinguished the form of a hawk standing in a small niche high up on the face of the bluff, as it was after 9 p.m. and already becoming dark. As I approached the hawk sprang out, with another complaining cry and started around the point of the hill an ineffectual shot only elicited another complaining cry, following it around the hill I soon found it perched in another niche which from the colored surface of the surrounding rock was probably used as much as its former perch. As I walked under the cliff it again cried out and flew out again to be brought down by a second shot, as I fired another mew in a slightly different tone greeted my ear [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] from another part of the same bluff and securing my bird I after a long scrutiny of the face of the cliff made out the head of another hawk peering over the edge of a shelf about 150 feet high and about 20 feet below the top of the bluff. I fired twice at this in hopes to cause the bird to leave the nest which I knew must be there but without causing it to stir only the same cry being repeated, & now becoming dark I returned to my boat and home. On referring to Congs I find that my hawk is Falco gyrfalco taken for the first time in America by Mr. Dall on one of these islands -

A pair of long-eared owls noted on the top of the hill after dark a long Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo first drew my attention too them as they sat on top of a knoll - they were very shy -

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