OENITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 



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I see no reason for lumping tbe eastern and western forms of this 

 species together, as they are fairly separable by the darker rump and 

 heavier-barred flanks and axillaries of tbe former. As a rule baueri 

 is paler than the typical lapponica, but a specimen from Bering Island, 

 No. 92818, is fully as deeply colored as average European specimens, 

 being, however, the darkest of an extensive series. 



The name given by Naumann is undoubtedly older than those given 

 by Gray or Gould. It is not a museum name only, as Naumann, when 

 publishing it, indicated a character by which he thought it separable. 

 That this character afterwards failed, does not invalidate the namej 

 hence there is no good reason for rejecting it. 



List of specimens collected. 



No. 89064. — Iris daik brown. Bill blackish brown at tip, liaht reddish gray at base, especially light 

 on both r:imi of the lower mandible. Feet uniform brownish black. 

 No. 89005. — Basal half of bill flesh-color, terminal half blackish brown. 

 No. 92817. — Bill blackish brown, brownish flesh-color at base below. 



The Pacific Bar-tailed Godwit is a regular visitor to the Commander 

 Islands during the migrator^' seasons. In 1883 I observed the first ones 

 on the 10th of .May on the sandy beacli at Fedoskija, Bering Island, and 

 specimens were obtained again during the latter part of September. 

 While on Copper Island, in 1883, I saw one solitary bird at Glinka, 

 about the middle of July, and another at Pestschanij on the COth of the 

 same month, so that it may be that a few remain to breed. It is, how- 

 ever, not uncommon among Arctic waters that individuals, not disposed 

 to breed, stay at some more southerly locality during the whole summer. 



GeiDus PSEUDOTOTANUS Hume. 



Sjn.:=1878.~Psendofofami8 Hi'mk, Stray Fcatb., VI (p. 488). 



= l8-ii.—Pseudo(jloltis Stejnicgicr, Zcitschr. Ges. Oru., I, 1884, p. 223. 



Bill rather stout, long, longer than tarsus, culmen slightly recurved ; 



