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cut off for my inspection, and with some difficulty I succeeded in skin- 
ning and preserving it. Besides the six downy young ones, a specimen 
was captured alive, and I hope to keep it safe from the numberless 
(about 600) old dogs of the village until it has assumed its full plumage. 
Whether the Anorthura belongs to alascensis Baird, or to fumigatus 
Temm., or whether these two are identical is beyond my present knowl- 
edge. On the other hand, I am very doubtful as to the groups to which 
Hierofalco candicans (Gm.) belongs. <Acanthis exilipes (Coues) I regard 
as circumpolar, as I think it hardly practicable to separate the pale- 
arctic form from the American one. 
It is not my intention to give at present any list of the birds, but 
merely a brief enumeration of the more interesting species of the old 
world not mentioned above: 
Fringilla montifringilla L. 
Leucosticte brunneinucha (Brat.). 
Euspiza aureola (Pall.). 
Anthus sp. 
Motacilla kamtschatica “ Pall.” (Auct.).* 
Phyllopneuste borealis Blas. 
Cuculus canorinus Cab.—I have one specimen from Petropaulski, one 
from Copper Island, and one from Bering Island. In the former the 
stomach was filled with the remains of Bombus, in the latter two with 
a plenty of Gammaride! The cry is exactly like that of the European 
species. 
Charadrius fulvus Gm. 
Eudromias mongolicus (Pall.). 
Aigialitis alecandrinus (L.). 
Totanus glareola (1.). 
Totanus nebularius (Gurm.). 
Tringoides hypoleucos (L.). 
Actodromas temminckii (Leisl.). 
Actodromas damacensis (Horsf.). 
Actodromas subminutus (Midd.). 
Nettion faleatum (Pall.). 
*This form is usually quoted as M. alba var. kamitschatica Pall., Zoogr. Ross.-As., 
but I recollect very well that Pallas (op. cit.) does not give such a name. It has 
usually been identified with Motacilla japonica Swinh. (= M. lugens Temm. et Schleg., 
Faun. Jap.), but until we have learned whether the ‘‘ black cheeks” of the latter is a 
mistake or not, I think it will be safest to keep the Ka: tschadalian bird separate 
under the above name, as its cheeks are white with only a well-defined black stripe 
through the eye. The specimen from Petropaulski proves the identity of the birds 
here from the island with those of Kamtschatka. I now think that the birds in the 
National Museum, collected in Siberia by Mr. W. H. Dall and Dr. Bean, as also the 
specimen seen by Mr. Turner on Attu and the bird from California, all referred to M. 
ocularis Swinh., belong rather to M. kamtschatica, being young, or in winter plumage, 
with gray back. M.ocularis seems to be an inland bird, not at all occurring on the 
Pacific coast. 
