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65 (72). Chen hyperboreus (Pall.)oIT. 



Duriugthe autimiu, 1863, some large white birds with black wings were 

 observed by the natives on the northern lakes of Bering Island 



€6(7.3). Branta canadensis hutchinsii (Rich.) 147. 



A few pairs breed on the northern swamps of Bering" Island. la 

 addition to the specimens which I collected, Mr. Grebnitzki has pre- 

 sented the museum with an adult female, obtained June 1), 18S4. on 

 Bering Island (Grebn. No. \o(), U. S. Nat. iMus. No. 100(317). 



The dimensions of tliij> specimen are as fullow^s: Wing, uS7""'; tail 

 feathers, 120"""; bill, from frontal feathers, 3-1'"'"; bill along gape, 36"'"; 

 bill to hind border of nostrils, 24'""' ; width of bill at nostrils, IT'"""; 

 tarsus, 75"^'" ; middle toe with claw, 60'"'". 



67 (74). Branta nigricans (Lawr. ), 149. 



Only one specimen obtained in Bering Island, November, 1882. 



The Black Brandt is mentioned as occurring in Kamtschatka as early 

 as 1784, being incorporated in Pennant's list (Gook's Voy. Pacif., Ill, 

 p. 356) as Anas bernicla. It was not obtained, however, by Dr. Dybow- 

 ski's collectors. 



68 (74.1 ). Philacte canagica (Sevast.). 



1800. — Anas canagica Sevast., N. Act. Petrop.. XIII, 1800 (p. 346, pi. s). — Anscr cana- 

 gicus Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb., I, 1836, p. ;!7. — Id., Dersr. et Icou. 

 An. Ross. Nov., I, p. U, pi. i (1836).— Fixsch, Abb. Brem. Yer., Ill, 187-2, 

 p. 66. — Chlcephaga canagica Dall & Banxist., Tr. Cbicag. Ac, I, 1869, p. 

 296. — Dall, Notes Avif. Aleut. Isl. Uual. Eastw., p. 5 (1873). — Adams, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 429.— Philacte c. Dall, Notes Avif. Aleut. Isl. West. Unal., p. 6 (1874). 

 — CouES, Elliott's Aff. Alaska, p. 189 (1875).— Elliott, Mou. Seal-Isl., p. 

 130 (1882).— Nelson, Cruise Corwin, 1881, p. 95 (1883).— Baird, Brewer, 

 & RiDGW.,Water-B. N.Am., I, p. 477 (1884).— Turner, Auk, 1885, p. 158.— 

 Id., Coatrib. Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. — (1887). — Bernicla c. Saunders, Ibis, 

 1883, p. 348. 



1826. — Anser pictus Pallas, Zoogr. Ross. As., II, p. 233, pi. Ixvii ((ifc'GjiEL.). — Pal- 

 men, Great Interu. Fish. Exh. Loud., Sweden, Spec. Cat., p. 200 (1883). 



The capture of two Emperor Geese on Bering Island in the s])ring of 

 1885, during the migration ('?), is the most interesting addition to the 

 avifauna of the Gommander Islands and Kamtschatka since my de])art- 

 ure from that region, and, with the exception of the specimens obtained 

 by N^ordenskiold on the Tschuktschl Peninsula, the only record of this 

 species in the Old World, that I am aware of. 



The measurements are as follows : 



U.S. 



Nat.'-i Collector 

 Mas. ; and No. 

 No. 



109993 



Grebn, 147 

 ....do 



Sex 

 and 



age. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Tail- 

 Wing, feath- 

 t ers. 



ad. 



Bering Island Apr. 6, 1886 



do 



386 

 402 



Exp. Tar. 

 culmen.; sus. 



125 

 130 



Middle 



toe 



with 



claw. 



71 

 76 



