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repayed by finding numerous butterflies of four species 3 of which I secured.

Budytes flava was common along the edge of this low bluff and Longspurs common everywhere and their young flying about Semipalmated Sandpipers and Northern Phaloropers also common as were glaucus [[Glaucous]] and short-billed gulls & arctic terns about the estuary Many pretty flowers decked the ground and mosquitoes & other flies were common and several Humble Bees were seen. After slowing for tea just after the shift we went on until up one of the shallow branches of the stream we were aground and we then went on shore. I found a pair of swans & young also a number of pairs of white fronted Geese with young. These latter scuttled into a branch of the estuary when they swam stupidly about looking at me until I came up within about 20 yds of the nearest - Some Mergus serrator and a very few Pintail ducks seen. A brood of downey young [[?]] & their mother were seen and several Jaegers (S. richardsoni) two in the black plumage -and the nest of Glaucus gull with young half grown on small island in a pond on the flat.

Near the sea shore the burrows of Parry's Marmot were seen We started back now & had a stiff headwind - on our way we ran across a flock of some hundred or over Branta hutchinsii with their wing feathers shed - They 

Transcription Notes:
.Humble Bees is a variation on Bumble Bees.