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I obtained a skin from a native on the coast near Bering Straits, and was informed that the bird 
occurred there rarely in summer, and that it nested regularly among the scattered forests a short 
distance in the interior. It is unknown elsewhere in the region under discussion. 
ALCEDINID. KINGFISHERS. 
CERYLE ALCYON (Linn.) Boie. 
(53.) THE BELTED KINGFISHER. 
Although a not uncommon resident in the interior, along the numerous water courses, this 
bird is extremely rare on the sea-coast. A single specimen was brought in by a native from the 
shore near the mouth of a small river to the north of Saint Michael’s, and I heard of its capture at 
one or two other places on the shore of Norton Sound. Elsewhere I do not know of its occurence, 
although it is likely to be found about Bristol Bay and perhaps the shores of Kotzebue Sound, 
where several fresh-water streams occur. 
STRIGIDA. OWLS. 
ASIO ACCIPITRINUS (Pall.) Newton. 
(54.) THE SHORT-EARED OWL. 
Along the entire Aleutian chain and thence north along the mainland of Alaska to Point Bar- 
row this bird is found. As asummer resident on the Aleutian Islands, Dall found it rather com- 
mon and found it nesting in burrows on the hillsides. In May, 1877, I found a pair of short-eared 
owls near Unalaska frequenting the hillsides and becoming very active after sunset. Several times 
while hunting, at this time of day, I disturbed the birds and found them extremely shy, so much so 
that they would take flight a hundred yards or more in advance, uttering at the same time a loud 
rolling ery. During the several years succeeding this I found they arrived the last of May or first 
of June along the coast of Alaska to the north, where they are summer residents and at times 
quite numerous. There is no record of the bird from the islands in Bering Sea, with the exception 
of the Aleutian chain, though its well known wandering habits undoubtedly take it to them at 
times. Neither is it recorded from the adjacent coast of Siberia, but its range extends through 
this region. On the Alaskan coast of the Arctic it is found nearly if not quite to Point Barrow. 
ULULA CINEREA (Gmel.) Bp. 
(55.) THE GREAT GRAY OWL. 
This fine Owl can be reckoned as a very rare visitant to the shores of Bering Sea, its prefer- 
ence for wooded country limiting its range to those parts of the interior where spruce and other 
trees afford it congenial shelter. Stray individuals occur at times along the shores of Norton 
Sound, where the near approach of the forests to the sea along the banks of the various streams 
flowing into the sound afford it a convenient highway. As might be inferred from the lack of 
timber, it is a totally unknown species on all the islands of Bering Sea, and I do not think it is 
found on the opposite Siberian coast, unless by accident, as the following species vists the Alaskan 
shore. 
ULULA CINEREA LAPPONICA (Retz.) Ridgw. 
(56.) THE LAPLAND OWL. 
But a single instance is known of this bird’s occurrence in the region covered by this paper 
and the only American record as well. This record rests upon a specimen secured some years 
since by L. M. Turner at Saint Michael’s, Norton Sound. It is a well-known species in the wooded 
parts of North Europe and Siberia and only occurs on the bare, forbidding coast country as a 
stray wanderer, 
