APPENDIX TO THE SYNOPSIS OF BIRDS REPORTED TO INHABIT 



KAMTSCHATKA. 



While the foregoing list is going through the press I receive the 

 "Liste des Oiseaux du Kamtschatka et des iles Comandores, par le Dr. 

 B. Dybowski et L. Taczanowski" (Extr. du Bulletin de la Society Zoo- 

 logique de France, t. IX, 1884), which necessitates some additional re- 

 marks on my part. 



Aquila nob His Pall, is given as distinct from A. chrysaetos, and both 

 as occurring in Kamtschatka. 



'■'■Arcliibuteo lagopus ferrugmeus,'" is given as occurring on Bering Isl- 

 and against A. lagopus from Kamtschatka. As to the identity of the 

 Bering Island bird, see this work, ]i. 208. Archibuteo ferrugineus is a 

 perfectly good species from Western North America, south of Wash- 

 ington Territory, which not even the wildest trinorainalist ever thought 

 of imiting with A. lagopus. Indeed, to use Dr. Coues's words, it is 

 " one of the handsomest and most distinctively marked hawks of North 

 America, somewhat recalling Buteo albocaudatus.^'' It is " pure white 

 underneath, from bill to end of tail, the legs rich rufous or bright chest- 

 nut, barred with black, in marked contrast ; usually a few chestnut 

 bars or arrow-heads on the belly and flanks, and the breast with sharp 

 shaft lines of black." Taczanowski says of his birds that "lis out tous 

 I'abdomen largement brun, tout le devant des parties inf^rieures isa- 

 belle-roussatre, vari6 de striesbrunes," &c. It is unnecessary to remark 

 that they have not the faintest relation to A. ferrugineus. Dybowski's 

 and Taczanowski's misidentiflcation is most extraordinary ! 



Falco peregrinus. — From the comparison with the bird from Bering 

 Island {Falco pealei) it appears as if the Kamtschatkan bird might be 

 the typical peregrinus. 



Astur palumbarius. — The authors concede, as suggested by me on p. 

 320, that their atricapillus is only the young candid issimus. 



Asia otus should be stricken out of the list. The authors state that 

 it was "inscrit par erreur au lieu de VO. brachyotus.''^ 



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