Viewing page 45 of 78

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

84 
May 16th  The weather has been very bad since last date. To-day it is clear & we started to go to The Cape but grounded & had to wait the flood Found crabs in abundance & caught some large flat fish. Saw abundance of Blackcap terns but did not kill any. 
May 23d Today went to Pine Island & obtained several new species of Plants. Weather continues clear for some time. 
May 30th Went today to the south end of the bay to see patients. Noticed on the water Surf ducks & loons. Nearly all the birds of passage have gone north 
Obtained the specimens mentioned in Catalog. On the portage heard several Painted thrushes singing their single shrill & musical notes in a descending scale by fifths giving it a sinuous & solemn air. Noticed the Polap[[guess]] met & P Harrisi having nests in dead trees with young. Also the Parus rufescens. The Tsug-Bewickii sings a song like the Black throat Bunting 
The Hir-bicolor seems also to frequent dead trees & deserted holes of birds. 
[[end page]]
[[start page]]
85
June 8th Went across the Bay to Cedar Creek where I remained three days during a southwest storm. Shot and afterwards lost, a small dove col'd Gull. Obtained the Totanus in Catal which is the only one I have seen here (T. macularin) Also the sparrow which appears new. Found cones preserved int he clay banks but so soft as to crumble to pieces. Noticed [[Spirem opulifolia?]] on the bluffs. 
June 11th Returned today; the weather being pleasant. See the Surf Ducks still in flocks about the Bay. 
June 20th Crossed the Bay to Sandy Pt where I obtained numerous specimens mentioned in Catal. Found the egg of the Pigeon which is common here, white & in size like that of the common kind. Also the nest & eggs of Hirundo bicolor also white. Preserved the egg of No 79 Some of the plants resemble those seen last year on the plains at Wallawalla.