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several shot the others drifting slowly off shore. I went over the mts. through a notch but was only rewarded by seeing one or two snow buntings one of which uttered a loud clear musical song which sounded clear and strong from the high rocky summits of the ridges. This song is harder, louder and a little shorter than the Lapland Longspurs but it sounds well in the rocky solitudes broken only by the trickling of water finding its way beneath the stones down the hillside. A dark colored spider was also common running about among the stones and was the only insect seen except a brownish red caterpiller near the mt top on the bare stones & still living after the winter. Probably these larvae do not attain their growth in a single season. Plover Bay & the series of very similar bays in this part of the coast are all fjords and show marks of glacial action from a northerly direction. On St. L. Is the snow was still laying in any place where drifts had formed in winter and we saw a few pieces of ice on our way to this point. In Emma Harbor & up, the ice is still left and the hills all about have heavy snow patches scattered abundantly over their sides. The ice still covers some small fresh water lakes just beyond Emma Harbor These lakes are said to abound in some kind of fish by the natives. [[strikethrough]] Ic [[/strikethrough]] I found scattered here and 

Transcription Notes:
.louder and a little shorter than the Lafil[[?]] and[[?]] Song[[?]] Spur[[?]], unknown words. A bird type or sound?