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PSALTRIPARUS MINIMUS SATURATUS Ridgway. 

 NORTHWESTERN BUSH-TIT. 



This bird was common in the hushes about Dockton, Wash- 

 ington. Specimens brought back are typical of this subspecies. 



ACANTHOPNEUSTE BOREALIS XANTHODRYAS Swinhoe 

 ARCTIC WILLOW WARBLER. 



A typical example of this subspecies, a female, was caught on board 

 the Albatross in the Okhotsk Sea, about 7 miles wesl of Kunashir, 

 Kurils, on October 1. 1906. 



ACROCEPHALUS JAPONICUS (Cassin). 

 JAPANESE REED WARBLER. 



When I visited Simushir, in the Kurils, on June 23, 1906, 1 found 

 this species abundant in the tall rank grass just hack of the beach 

 and about the piles of driftwood. It was by far the commonest bird 

 on the island. The only other small birds I saw near Milne Bay w ere 

 Anihus }<i ponicus, which was rather common on the grassy lowlands 

 behind the fringe of rank beach grass, and Motacilla lugens, which 

 was not very common and only seen along the rocky seacoast. 



The seven specimens secured agree with others in the National 

 Museum collection from the other Kurils and Japan. 



ACROCEPHALUS OCHOTENSIS (Middendorf). 

 MIDDENDORF'S GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 



When we were off the eastern coast of Sakhalin, and for the first 

 half of the journey across the Okhotsk Sea, many birds of this genus, 

 resembling those I had found on Simushir, but paler and more olive in 

 color, came on board. I have tentatively referred them to A. ocho- 

 tensis, although I can not be positive of the identification, as none 

 were secured. 



HYLOCICHLA GUTTATA GUTTATA (Pallas). 

 HERMIT THRUSH. 



The Hermit Thrush was occasionally seen in the woods near Dock- 

 ton and about Union Bay, hut did not appear to he common. 



PLANESTICUS MIGRATORIUS PROPINQUUS Ridgway. 

 WESTERN ROBIN. 



The Western Robin was not uncommon about the more extensive 

 clearings in the vicinity of Dockton and Union Bay and in the out- 

 skirts of those two towns. Puget Sound specimens are deeper in 

 color than birds from more southern localities, especially on the 

 breast, and I believe that eventually it will he found advisable to 

 recognize them as a distinct race. 



