282 Mr. G. E. H. Barrett-Iianiiltuii on 



but omitted the termiual portion of the song of tliat bird. 

 Oecasionally a small party of the Kamchatkaii Titmouse 

 were to be seen searching the trees for food, just like our 

 own common species. A Magpie, Pica kamtscbatica Stejn., 

 and a Carrion-Crow, Coi^vus corone levaillantii (Less.), com- 

 pleted the list of woodland species. About the streams or 

 at the water-edge the Grey and Pied Wagtails, Motacilla 

 melanope, and probably M. lugens, were often to be seen, 

 while a Sky-Lark, [Alauda blakistoai, was obtained in the 

 open country near Petropavlovsk. 



Wading birds were not numerous at Tareinski. On July 

 17th I shot a young Tattler, Heteractitis incanus, a bird 

 Avhich uttered no note, and at about the same time one of 

 our party saw some Whimbrels or Curlews, but on the whole 

 there was quite a remarkable absence of wading birds. On 

 oar autumn visit to Petropavlovsk in August 1897 we added 

 to the listof species obtained, securing examples of that cosmo- 

 politan species the Turnstone, Arenarla interpres, and a 

 Whimbrel, Numenius phoeopus variegatus (Scop.). 



Ducks were very numerous, especially the conspicuously 

 white-winged Goosander, or perhaps the INIerganser, for no 

 specimen was obtained, but, according to Dr. Stejneger, both 

 species occur. Flocks of Wigeon, another species with 

 white-barred wings, were also seen ; but, strange to say, the 

 only specimen which we shot, a female weighing \^ lbs,, 

 proved to be an example of the American Wigeon, a stranger 

 to Asia, and, I believe, the first known specimen from the 

 western shores of Bering Sea. 



In 1897 we obtained specimens of a Golden-eye, the 

 common Wild Duck, and Teal ; while Mr. Jacobleff, an 

 employee of the Russian Fur-Seal Company at Petropavlovsk, 

 has since sent me specimens of the Smew and of the Harlequin 

 Duck. In fact, bird-life was far more plentiful on the water 

 than on shore, and, besides the Black Puffins, and the 

 Guillemots, Common and Black, which fished even in the 

 innermost recesses of the harbour, we had here Larus ridi- 

 bundus and L. canus, so w^ell known in England, and the 

 Pacific Kittiwake, R'lssa tridactyla pullicuris Stejn. Skuas, 



