Cruise of the revenue steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic ocean in 1881 ... Notes and memoranda ..

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Title: Cruise of the revenue steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic ocean in 1881 ... Notes and memoranda ..
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: United States. Revenue-Cutter Service Muir, John, 1838-1914 Nelson, Edward William, 1855-1934 Rosse, Irving C, (Irving Collins. 1842-1901 Bean, Tarleton H. (Tarleton Hoffman), 1846-1916
Subjects: Corwin (Revenue-cutter) Botany Birds Fishes
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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species just mentioned extend tbeir summer haunts even to theconfines of tiie Arctic Circle. Both make pilgrimages in the winter to Mexico and CentralAmerica, where they hob-nob and catch flies with the stay-at home warblers and fly catchers ofthe tropical forests, and after a season of recreation and plenty they betake themselves over thethousands of miles intervening and arrive a merry, restless party at their nesting grounds earlyin June or the last of May. They are unknown beyond the Alaskan mainland and are moreplentiful in the interior than on the coast. LANIID^. SHRIKES.LANIUS BOREALIS Vieill. (24.) The Great Northern Shrike. The Northern Shrike is a very rare visitant to the coast of Bering Sea, and except at themouth of the Yukon and along the shores of Kotzebue and Nortou Sounds its occurrence is veryunusual. In the places nuUtioned it must be classed as rare. The mouth of the Yukon is appar-ently the point of most frequent occurrence, while elsewhere it is a mere straggler.
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CRUISE OF STEAMER CORWIN IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN. 65 lanius cristatus.(25.) The Crested Shrike. As tbe last boat came off from Wrangel Island and the captain began to i)repare for gettingclear from the ice that the strong tide was bringing abont us with too much force for safety, asailor came up to me in a shamefaced manner and held out a dried specimen of this bird which hesaid he had picked up on the hillside and wished to know if I cared for it. As might be supposedthe mummy was taken in hand and is among tbe prizes secured during the cruise of the Corwin.By the aid of alcohol it came safely to Washington, and Mr. Ridgway has carefully reproducedit in the accompanying plate. It has been represented as perching upon a fragment of drift-woodfrozen in the ice, with the shores of Wrangel Island in the distance, the latter being from sketchestaken by myself as we were leaving that place. I may refer to the fact that we found fragmentsof drift-wood, not only upon this island but in the water

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