ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 



List of specimens collected. 



267 



Locality. 



Petropaulski. 



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July — , 1883 

 June 6, 1882 

 June 30, 1882 

 July 5,1882 



Red. 

 Do. 

 Gray. 

 Do. 



No. 89162. — Iris dark hazel. BiU brownish gray ; lower mandible light. Feet brownish gray. 

 Ko. 89163.— Iris, bill, and feet as foregoing. Testes large, swollen, size of a pea. 

 No. 89164. — Testes large, well developed. 



The Scarlet Eose Finch is one of the commonest summer birds in the 

 vicinity of Petropaulski, where it makes itself conspicuous by its sweet 

 and pleasant song. 



In 1883 I did not meet it there at all, as it had not arrived when I 

 left Kamtschatka in the spring, and had already departed when, in the 

 autumn, I once more landed in Petropaulski. 



It did not occur on the island during my stay, and no instance of its 

 capture there has been recorded. 



Family HIRUNDINID^. 



121. Clivicola riparia (Lin.). 



1758.— ffirundon^ana Lin., Nat. Syst., 10 ed., I, p. 192.— Pall., Zoogr, Ross. As., I,p. 535 

 (1826).— MiDD., Sibir. Reise, 11,2 (p. 189) (1853).— Schrenck, Reise Araurl., 

 I, p. 389 (I860).— Radde, Reisen Siiden Ost-Sibir. (p. 281) (1863).— CofyZe r. 

 SwiNH., Ibis, 1861, p. 328.— /d., ibid., 1863, p. 89.— /d, P. Z. S., 1863. p. 287.— 

 Id., ibid., 1871, p. 346.— Taczan., J. f. Oru., 1872, p. 353.— /d., ibid., 1874, p. 

 334.— Id., Orn. Fauna Vost. Sibir., p. 20 (1877).— Jd., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 1876, p. UA.—Id., ibid., 1882, p. 385.— Blakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 231.— 

 lid., Trans. As. Soc. Japan, VIII, 1880, p. 211.— /id., ibid., X, 1882, p. 139.— 

 Seebohm., Ibis, 1879, p. 30.— Blakist., Amend. List B. Jap., p. 21 (1884). 



The Kamtschatkan specimens collected by me agree very Well with 

 birds from Western Europe, although being a shade darker. They also 

 agree with them in the extent of the furcation of the tail, the distance 

 between the tips of the longest and shortest tail-feathers being as great 

 as the length of the hind toe with claw. In all the American specimens 

 examined by me (sixteen) the same distance is hardly longer than the hind 



