1>72 rinH'iannscs of nib: n aiionai. muski'm. v..i.. nm. 



6. CKPPHUS CARBO Pallas. lo. 



I'iilhis' in (Icscrihiii-; this sjM'cirs ,s;iys \,\\:\i \{, jinivcs in spring' at 

 Mm'. Kuril Isliinds, l>ii( I«^tv«'S llicni soon. I Jiin not ;i\v;ir(' ol iiny oMmm- 

 jiutlicnlic, roltirencc lo tlic species in llie Knrils lUiiUistoii evidently 

 <li(l not oblMJii it from the, isliin<ls, ;im it is phiin that he eone<;tly dis- 

 tinjiuished the I riie <U-p})lins mr/w, Iiu-j;er, with larj^-er bill, sooty I'athei- 

 than pnre l)la('k, and with a white space, around tlie eye, from tlu', Irne 

 "Kuril Is!ai»ds black ( iiiilleniot," and only consideiinjii- ('. c<nlio as 

 IVoni tiie Kniils Willi a " perhaps '" abided.' I niysell" saw no true (I 

 <<(rh(>, neither in I he iiii<ld!e Knrils nor at itnriip. 



7. CKPPHUS SNOWl Stcjnc(,'civ' 10',. 



JHaffnonis. — Mo white ajea. siinoundin^ the eye; wiiifj^H entirely blaek, 

 Ol- with narrow whil«', tips to the larj^cr eovorts, foi-niinff at most three 

 narrow white bands; nn«ler winj^' eoverls smoky ^ray ; bhudv ol" baek 

 with a slale coloi'etl ^ioss; I'onrtj'en tail Icatluus. 



llahUat. — Kuril islands. 



Ti/pr.—No. ininni, II.S.N.M. K'jiikoke, Kuril islands, An};iist 'SA, 

 ISIHI. I;. Htejnej^er, No. 7<M)i). 



This new sp(u;ics, which 1 have taki'.n j^reat pleasnn' in dedicating to 

 (Japt. -I. II. Hnow, of Yokohama, in comnnMiioration of his work of 

 exploration and collecting in the Kuril islands, belongs to the s:m\v. 

 ^roup as (h'pphns coliimha i'ailas, with which it sliares the j^cneral 

 eoloration, smoky j^ray color of undei' winj;-(!overts, fourteen tail 

 leathers, and propoitionale <;reaier length of loot, teatui'cvs which 

 distin<;uish tlu^m IVom iU'pphns firj/llr and ('. niamUil. It is easily 

 distinj^nished from (>. volnmha in the absence of a defined white wing 

 si»eeulum, all the upper win^coverls beinj; black, <'ith(5r entirely so or 

 the posti^'ior three rows narrowly lipped with white, forming' on(i to 

 three narrow white bars. In more than one half of the nunuMoiis 

 H|)eein>ens I saw the win.i;s were eidirely black. It can be asscirted 

 with absolute certainty that (I colKinha does not breed in tli(^ Middles 

 or Sold hern Knrils, where llu^ present specit'S exeliisivc^ly occupies the 

 suitable localities in untold thousands. This statement may be neces- 

 sary, as one mij-lit be l<'.mpled to regard a lew isolated specimens 

 as a merely individual melaiiistic phase o\' (I cohiiiilm analoj;oiis to 

 the so called C. motzfchli of the North Athuitie,' which is plainly a 

 melanism. 



It is interestini; to note that on the American side the typ*', of T. 



' I'lin'olif)!). 



='()rif>iiially doHirrihiMJ in Mic Auk, 1S!I7, ]). 201. 



'Sco ("olIct'H oNh.niHlJvc iiiv(wlii;;ilit)ii ol' lliis ]iliasn (hi ,1 MchuiisMc I'liaHO ol' 

 Uria (;r.vllo CliriHliaiia, Nid. SoIhU. l''()rliaii(ll., ISH;"., No. 1, II pp. 



