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mens from Kodiak, concluded that the bird of this region is 

 turneri. 



Subsequently, Duvall (1945) reviewed the black-capped chicka- 

 dees of North America and assigned turneri to "The coast of 

 Alaska north to St. Michael; west to the Aleutian Islands (Shu- 

 magins etc.), Kodiak Island; south to southeastern Alaska 

 (Haines), northern British Columbia (Atlin), southern Yukon, 

 and central-southern Mackenzie; and east to Great Bear Lake in 

 west-central Mackenzie." 



Cahalane (1944) "found them quite frequently and in some 

 abundance west of the Aleutian Range" in September 1940. 



On our expeditions, we heard a chickadee in the woods near 

 Afognak Village, September 2, 1936; we heard one in the alders 

 at Sand Point, Popof Island, August 26; and heard at least 6 

 pairs on Nagai Island, Shumagins, May 16, where we collected 

 2 specimens. 



Gianini (1917) saw several chickadees at Stepovak Bay on one 

 occasion. He listed them as Penthestes cinctus alascensis and said 

 they looked much like the eastern black cap. Undoubtedly, these 

 birds were P. a. turneri, judging by his own description and by 

 the fact that the Alaska gray-headed chickadee resembles the 

 Hudsonian chickadee. 



Gabrielson observed these chickadees at Kodiak, King Cove, 

 and the Shumagins. 



Parus hudsonicus: Boreal Chickadee 

 Parus hudsonicus hudsonicus 



Osgood (1904) found this chickadee at long intervals in the 

 timbered portions of the base of Alaska Peninsula and collected 

 several specimens. In 1940, Gabrielson saw them on Naknek 

 River and Brooks Lake, and he obtained two specimens in the 

 latter locality. 



In 1940, Gabrielson noted two chickadees on Kodiak which he 

 called Hudsonian chickadee. Friedmann (1935), under the head- 

 ing of Penthestes 7-ufescens rufescens, says "all that I have been 

 able to learn of this chickadee on Kodiak Island is that Finsch 

 states that Bischoff observed it there. Apparently he collected 

 no specimens." On geographic grounds, considering Gabrielson's 

 sight identification and the absence of specimens of rufescens 

 that far west, it is more likely that it is a form of the boreal 

 chickadee that occurs there. 



At least 15 specimens from the Bristol Bay region, and 2 from 

 Brooks Lake, were available and were compared with large se- 



