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ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 

 List of specimens collected. 



Locality. 



Bering Island May 10,1882 



do May 19,1882 



do May 24,1882 



do i Oct. 23,1882 



do. [Dec. 13,1882 



Copper Island | July 2, 1 883 



do I July 1,1883 



'f ad. 

 cT ad. 

 cT ad. 



JUV. 



juv. 



mm,. 

 176 

 190 

 185 

 198 

 187 



mm. : irvm. 

 110 I 66 



120 

 113 

 113 

 112 

 98 

 83 



No. 89001. — Iiis iL ik blown. Bill black, corner of luoutb yellow. Feet brownish black. 



Xo. 92650. — BiU yollow, tij) and culiuen blackish. Feet brownish black. 



No. 92653.— Iris dark brown. Bill light brownish yellow, dusky on culmen, and with a greenish 

 tinge in front of nostrils ; angle of mouth pale yellow. Feet gray, with a purplish tinge above and 

 yellowish below. 



Ko. 92652. — Differed from the foregoing only in having the more dusky on the upper mandible. 



113. Calcarius lapponicus (Lin.). 



1758. — Frivgilla lapponica Lin., Syst. Nat., 10 ed.,I, p. 180. — Plecirophanes I. StVAiNS. 

 & Rich., Fauu. Bor. Am., II, p. 245, pi. xlviii (1831).— Midd., Sibir. Reisc, II, 

 2, (p. 136) (1853).— SCHRENCK, Reiso Amurl., I, p. 276 (I860).— SwiNii., Ibis, 

 1861, p. 334.— M,P. Z. S.,1871,p. 38'.).— Radde, Reiseu Siiden 0.st.-Sibir. (p. 

 156) (1863).— Przew., Patescb. Ussur, (n. 40) (1870).— Finscii, Abb. Nat. 

 Ver. Bremen, III, 1872, p. 54.— Taczan., J. f. Orn., 1873, p. 86.— Id., ihid., 

 1874, p. 335.— M, Oruitb. Fauiia Vost. Sibir., p. 35 (1877).— 7cZ., Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, 1882, p. 393.— CouES in Elliott's Aft". Alaska, p. 177 (1875).— 

 Harting, Fauna Prybil., p. 17 (1875). — Adams, Ibis, 1878, p. 425. — H. W. 

 Elliott, Monogr. Seal Isl., p. 128 (1832).— Ceiitrojjhanes I. Swinh., P. Z. S., 

 1863, p. 301.— Bean, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, p. 150.— Nelson, Cruise Cor- 

 win, p. 69 (1883.)— Calcarius I. Turner, Auk, 1885, p. 157. 



1773. — Fringilla calcarata Pall., Reise Russ. Reicb8.,II, App., p. 710. — Passer calca- 

 rattis Id., Zoogr. Ross. Asiat., II, p. 18, (1826.) — Plectrophanes calcaratus 

 ' KiTTL., Denkw., I, p. 337. 



The " Tschelutschjek," as this bird is called by the natives, is one of 

 the commonest of the land birds on the Commander Islands, and cer- 

 tainly the commonest on Bering Island, being pretty evenly distributed 

 over all the lower parts of the country. Its monotonous and melan- 

 choly chirp is in many places the only sound heard besides the howl 

 ing of the wind and the murmur of the distant breakers, making the 

 fog-clad tundras still more desolate and gloomy. But the Longspur 

 is also found among the earth-huts and the houses of the village, 

 where he represents the house sparrow, and I have seen him on the 



