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$ jun, {Bering Island, April 5, 1882). 



Upper surface blackish brown, faintly tinged with bluish slate, and with faint 

 buflfy edges to each feather, which arc lighter and broader, nearly whitish, on 

 neck and fore part of the crown ; forehead buflfy white, with the shafts black ; a 

 stripe underneath aud behind the eye, and a large patch underneath and behind 

 the mouth blackish brown ; chin and cheeks bufFy white, the latter with blackish 

 brown longitudinal stripes. Lower surface blackish brown, with buflfy white edges 

 on each feather which, besides, is crossed by one or two broad angular bars of 

 similar color, the angle pointing towards the tip of the feather; these cross-bars are 

 concealed, however, by the overlying feathers ; on the abdomen and flanks these 

 bands are reduced to rounded spots situated near the margin of the feathers and some- 

 what exposed ; under tail-coverts buflfy white with black transverse bars. Uj)per 

 aspect of the wing similar to the rest of the upper surface, each primary having 

 numerous buflf transverse spots on the inner web towards the margin ; under wing- 

 coverts like the under surface of the body, except that the whole margin and not the 

 edges alone are light colored, and that the angle of the light cros.s-bar points towards 

 the base instead of the tip of the feathers. Tail brownish black tinged with slate 

 gray, with buff-colored transverse spots along the margin of the inner webs, and 

 corresponding dots of the same color on the outer webs; all tail-feathers narrowly 

 tipped with whitish. First primary equal to third, and lO""™ shorter than the second, 

 which is longest ; fourth SS'"'" shorter than third. 



9 Jwn. {Bering Island.) 



Agrees closely with the foregoing in general coloration, but the under wing- 

 coverts show less light, the buflfy margius and spots being much narrower. On the 

 under side of the body the pattern of the individual feather is somewhat different, 

 as those of the breast have the concealed angular cross-bands reduced to marginal 

 spots, while those on the belly, as a rule, have only such a spot left in one of the 

 webs, aud often wautiug altogether. First primary 2 to S^i™ longer than third, and 

 about?"'" shorter than second, which is longest; fourth 24""" shorter than third ; 

 inner web of first only sinuated. 



93, Archibuteo lagopus (BrOnn.). 



17G4. —Falco lagopusBnViJssiiicn, Orn. Bor., p. 4. — AccipUer I. Pallas, Zoogr. Eoss. As., I, 

 p. 360 (1826).— i?M/eo /. Middened., Sibir. Reis., 11,2 (p. 126) (185:5).— Dy- 

 BOw., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1883, p. Z^l.—ArcMhuteo I. Dall. & Bannist., 

 Tr. Chic. Acad., 1, 1869, p. 272.— Taczan J.f. Orn., 1872, p. 347.— /<?., Bull. 

 Soc. Zool.Frauce, 1876, p. 123,— 7rf., ibid., 1883, p. 320.— Id., Orn. Faun. 

 Vost. Sibir., p. 10 (1877).— Blakist. & Pkyer, Ibis, 1878, p. 248.— lid., Tr. As. 

 Soc. Jap., VIII, 1H80, p. 238.— /idf., iWd., X, 188J, p. 182.— Blakist., Amend. 

 List B.Jap., p. 67 (l884).—AqHila I. Sees., Ibis, 1884, p. 43. 



1882. — Archibuteo lagopus sanclijohannis Bean, Pr. U. S.Nat. Mus.,V, July 25, 1882, p. 

 162 (nee Gmel.).— Nelsox, Cruise Corwin, p. 79 (1883). 



The Eougb-legged Buzzard did not put in its appearance during my 

 sojourn, and it was only with a query that my manuscript notes re- 

 ferred to this species as being probably the " brown hawk," which the 

 natives told me was occasionally seen. A fine specimen was, however, 

 included in the valuable collection which Mr. Grebnitski had the kind- 

 ness to send me in 1884, thus insuring beyond doubt the correctness of 

 the identification. As yet, the species is only an occasional visitor to 



