652 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
the window on the ground, not more than seven feet from my 
eyes, and which I believe to be this species. I failed, however, 
to procure it and hence there is an element of doubt in the iden- | 
tification. (Zurner.) On the morning of August 28th the Rodert 
Kerr, on which I was a passenger, was hindered from proceeding 
by a gale and low water on the bar, and was made fast to the 
bank at the Aphoon mouth of the Yukon. As I came on deck I 
saw half a dozen white wagtails fly about the vessel and settle in 
the grass close by. While I returned for my gun they left, but a 
thorough acquaintance with Motacilla albain Egypt, where it is 
abundant during the winter, leaves me no doubt that these birds 
were wagtails. (Bzshop.) 
CCXXXV. BUDYTES CovvieEr. . 1817. 
696. Siberian Yellow Wagtail. 
Budytes flavus leucostriatus (HOM.) STEJN. 1885. 
The yellow wagtail of eastern Siberia extending across Behring 
Sea into that portion of Alaska in the region of Behring Strait,.is 
one of the handsomest among its several related forms. The first 
specimens were obtained in the vicinity of St. Michael where it 
was found abundant during the summers of 1866 and 1867. In 
Alaska I found this bird along the coast as far south as the 
Yukon mouth, where it arrived May 28th, 1879, but was extremely 
rare. St. Michael, on Norton Sound, appears to be the centre of 
its abundance on our coast,and thence north it becomes rarer until 
at Kotzebue Sound it is, as at the Yukon mouth,very rare. (Ve/son.) 
This bird arrives about June 12th and is very shy. Few females 
come with the earliest visitants, yet but few days elapse before 
mating begins. (Zurner.) One adult male and two others were 
obtained July 11th, 1898, at Point Barrow, Alaska. (W2ztmer Stone.) 
CCXXXVI. ANTHUS BEeEcusTEINn. 1807. 
697. American Pipit. 
Anthus penstlvanicus (LATH.) THIENEM. 1849. 
The first specimens of this species were seen in Cumberland 
Gulf, May 30th, 1879. Inthe autumn they leave for the south 
about the beginning of September. At Annanactook Harbour, 
the nest was always placed deep in a rock crevice, so far in, in 
fact, that I could not secure any of the nests that I found. On 
