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fied as P. n. townsendi by Bridge, was in winter plumage. The specimen 

 constitutes the first distributional record of the occurrence of this 

 species on any of the islands of the Hawaiian area. 



Another snow bunting, probably this species, was seen by POBSP 

 personnel on Midway Atoll during the winter of 1964-65. 



Plectrophenax n. townsendi breeds from the Pribilof and Aleutian 

 Islands to the Alaskan Peninsula and the Alaskan range. It winters 

 in part in the breeding area but is found also in southeastern Alaska 

 and the northwestern United States (Gabrielson and Lincoln, 1959). 



Table 1. — Summary of new records of birds from the Hawaiian Leeward Islands 

 (r= first sight record from an island; sr= first specimen record from an 

 island; SR— first specimen confirmation of a species previously known only 

 from sight records for both the main Hawaiian and Hawaiian Leeward Islands 

 chain; SR = specimen record is for a species which has not been heretofore 

 reported from any of the main Hawaiian Islands or Leeward Hawaiian 

 Islands chain) 



