Birds observed in Kamchatkii. 291 



July 17, 1896. Colour of bill, eyelids, and interior of mouth 

 crimson ; of iris brown ; of legs and feet crimson brick ; 

 of claws brown. 



No. 13. ? , Karaga Village, August 21, 1897. Colour 

 of bill, eyelids, and interior of mouth dull red (duller than 

 the legs and feet) ; of iris brown ; of legs and feet blood- 

 red, exactly the colour of the bird's own blood. 



The bill and feet seem to fade rapidly in the antumu. 

 Dr. Stejneger notes an adult female obtained at Petro- 

 pavlovsk, on September 18, 1883, in which the bill was 

 pale salmon-red, with the tip in front of the nostrils dark 

 brownish, and the feet and webs similarly coloured. On the 

 other hand, an adult female obtained in the same locality 

 on September 28th, 1883, had the bill and feet vermilion, 

 the former somewhat dusky towards the tip. 



Sterna camtschatika Pallas. [S. longipennis Nordm.] 



No. 14. S nearly adult?, Petropavlovsk, August 28, 1897. 

 Colour of bill dark horn, tinged with red, the red appearing 

 especially at the base of the lower mandible ; of interior of 

 mouth light red ; of legs deep red ; of claws dark. 



No. 15. (J juv., Petropavlovsk, autumn of 1897 (3//-, 

 Jacobleff). 



No. 16. ? juv., same date and locality. Colour of bill 

 redder and lighter than in the older specimen (no. 14); of 

 legs yellowish red. 



Stejneger cites this species as not very numerous, although 

 lie found it both in May and autumn at the mouths of the 

 rivers falling into Avacha Bay. 



There is some question as to the colour of the feet of 

 this Tern. Mr. Howard Saunders, who (Brit. Mus. Cat. 

 vol. XXV. p. 68) says that they are " blackish," had evidently 

 only dried skins before him, for Dr. Stejneger gives the 

 colour of the legs of two adult females as " blackish red " 

 and "dark reddish brown," a description which agrees so 

 closely with my own that Dr. Stejneger would appear rather 

 in the light of a hair-splitter when, in a review of my 

 friend Mr. A. H. Evans's ' Birds,' he corrects the author for 



