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and The officers of the St. Paul and she stood [[apart?]] to sea, leaving us until next year.

July 19 - 1877
Bishop Seghir with an assistant who arrived on the St. Paul having made the necessary arrangements left in the afternoon for Ulukuk from whence he is to make a portage to Nulato to establish a mission
       
July 20, 1877-
Alexis, my indian assistant who returned from Picmictalik   River on the 18th, and who was coming off to the St. Paul in his bidarkie with a box of birds for Mr. Turner as we were returning to the shore, received a trading outfit to obtain ethnological specimens also some collecting materials and leaving his birds here started to return today

July 21, 1877,
The young of [[Biedytes?]] flava are about the garden & yard in considerable numbers 

July 22-23 & 24 did various small jobs I had on hand.

July 25- The Lapland Long- spurs are changing plumage also Charadrius virginicus- [[strikethrough]] As [[/strikethrough]] The young of Aegiothus [[heiara?]] are about in abundance also those of Passerculus- and a few of Zonotrichia gambelii 

July 26 to 31 Nothing of importance done.
Many small birds about the Redoubt.
Obtained two or three Keunicotts warblers on the 30 & 31 of the month.
Salmon, Arctic [[Raspidermis?]] and Blue Berries are ripe - 

Transcription Notes:
Biedytes flava- I'm not sure if that's the correct spelling. I'm also not sure if any of the species names are spelled correctly... Keunicotts Warblers mentioned on another page. Raspidermis - not sure if spelled correctly