CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 725 
of St. Michael. They were very shy and he succeeded in obtain- 
ing a single specimen. (JVelson.) I met with this species in the 
vicinity of Cape Blossom, Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, on July 3rd, 
1899. The locality was the side of a ravine between two hills of 
the first range, about a mile back from the mission. This hillside 
was of a gentle slope, and was clothed with thick patches of 
dwarf willows, one to two feet in height. That this species was 
breeding at Cape Blossom, I have no doubt, but time did not per- 
mit as the Penelope arrived and I had to leave; I procured two 
specimens however. (Gvrinneld.) 
CCLXI. SAXICOLA BeEcuSTEIN. 1803. 
765. Wheatear. 
Saxicola enanthe (LINN.) BECHST. 1803. 
During the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, Mr. Dall saw 
several large flocks of these birds near Nulato, on May 23rd and 
24th, 1868, and learned from the natives of their abundance upon 
the stony hill-tops back from the river. At St. Michael, Norton 
Sound, I found them to occur in spring and fall rather irregularly- 
They were not very rare, and the natives informed me that they 
were common upon the bare mountain tops in the interior, fre- 
quenting the summer range of the reindeer. The wheatear 
was also found at Port Clarence, in Behring Strait, at the 
head of Kotzebue Sound, at Cape Lisburne, by Dr. Bean. 
(Nelson.) This bird is very erratic in its occurrence in northern 
Alaska. Early in the spring migrations of 1882, we had these 
birds in comparative abundance near the station for a few days, 
but none remained to breed, and in the season of 1883, though a 
careful lookout was kept for them, not one was noticed. Those 
seen appeared to be travelling towards the northeast. (Murdoch.) 
Osgood saw two young wheatears at Circle City, Alaska, August 
Igth, 1899 and secured one. At the Aphoon mouth of the Yukon 
I shot one on August 27th, which fell into the river and was car- 
ried away by the rapid current, but I saw the white rump plainly. 
(Bishop.) 
765a. European Wheatear. 
Saxicola enanthe leucorhoeé (GMEL.) STEJN. IgOl. 
One male bird procured at Disco, Greenland, August 11th, 1891, 
and one on July 16th, 1892, by the Parry Relief Expedition. 
