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giving the welcome sight of open water.

26th 27th

The ice was well driven off shore and broken up the last two days - a stretch of 10 to 20 miles of water.

28th

My workman brought in a Zonotrichia coronata ♂ today also a ♂ White Crowned Sparrow. and reports the murres as very scarce yet about Egg Is.

[[?]] May 29th

My man brought in some ringa maculata today of which out of about 8 or 10 only one was a male I examined the neck as well as I could make out the part inflated to distend the breast is the gullet which becomes very soft and elastic. I could not find where the air was 

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introduced into the gullet as it became ruptured. The skin on the throat [[strikethrough]] becomes [[\strikethrough]] was very soft and loose hanging almost like a dewlap and thickly lined internally with a thick irregular layer of fat. The latter probably tends to aid in producing the deep [[strikethrough]] ef [[\strikethrough]] bass tone of the note.

Last eve the first Hirundo [[horrorum?]] came to the place. The cold rains of the past week putting it a [[strikethrough]] do [[\strikethrough]] week behind. Quite a number of swan, geese, crane & duck's eggs have come in lately.

all three species of Jaegers seen the past few days.
also the Rusty Blk Bird.

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