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where they breed, by millions. The mate tells me that [[strikethrough]] Wednes [[/strikethrough]] about 12  oclock last evening a large white owl came aboard and remained perching upon the masts until about 4 a.m. when it took its leave.

Wednesday June 13. 1877.

The wind fell again today. We passed near the Seal Is. early this morning. The "arries" were very abundant all about in much larger numbers than before. During the day quite a number of gulls were seen all that came near enough had black wing tips and were the same species as noted but not taken at Ounalaska. A pair of very small dark colored Petrels were seen in the evening. A white- Petrel (Rodgers Fulmar) about the size of Bonaparte's gull followed us toward evening and several "Choochkies" and a pair of another species of small auk were noted.

The gulls were flying toward the main land. The present [[strikethrough]] time [[/strikethrough]] is probably the time for migration of the arries and several other sea birds.

While at Ounalaska I noticed that on calm evenings the water appeared to be alive with myriads of small jelly fishes which gave out flashes of phosphorescent light at short intervals and gave much the same appearance as the same number of fireflies in the grass on a summer evening.

Before [[Iliff?]] the snow line had receded very considerably and several species of wild flowers