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Jan 23. 1872 - Beudel reports an eider with top of head gray
cheeks green with some black orange knob on bill, breast orange brown, wings dark.
Paul Rapin recognizes the Lampronetta from the figure, has seen it at St. Michael's and rarely here but says it is very shy. He distinguishes it perfectly from the other eiders _
See plenty of small sandpipers. 
The Leucostictes are getting brighter plumage _
Capt. Hall finds a piece of the pin of a squid four or or five inches long and two and a half wide, it must have been of enormous size. 
Find another piece of the curious sinistral Buccinum - like shell on W side Amaknak