NO. 1144. JiJJilhS OF THJa KUIilL ISLANDS— STKJNEGER. 285 



A third species of cormorant is eiiumertited by Snow with a query, 

 but uo particulars are given.' 



8i. HERODIAS ALBA (Linnaeus). 134. 



Beyond Snow's statement that lie has seen the great egret on Itnrnp^ 

 nothing is known concerning the occurrence of this species. Whetiuir 

 it was tiie true //. alha or the smaller snbspecies modcstd, uiuler which 

 name it is enumerated by Snow, it wouhl be impossible to ;jay without 

 specimens. 



82. LAGOPUS, species.' i56.t. 



Ptarmigans are louml on the northern Iviirils, but wliich species is 

 not known. A specimen obtained by Captain Snow on Shumshu, the 

 first island from Kamchatka, is des(;ril)ed by BUikiston and I'ryer ' as 

 measuring 1500 mm. in the wing, and as being wliite with tlie excep- 

 tion of the black tail feathers and line throuf/h the eye. This last sen- 

 tence sliows that it was not a willow grouse (/>. la(/o)n(.s), but (liat it 

 belonged to the />. mutiis group, and i>robabiy the same species as the 

 one occurring in Kamchatka. 



83. TURTUR GELASTIS (Temminck;. 159. 



Snow has observed it on Iturup,' 



84. FALCO PEALEI Ridgway. 



The relerences to Falco peiegriiuiH as a (;ommon bird on the Kuril 

 islands, from Pallas-' to Snow,"* who says that it is found througiiont 

 the wliole chain of islands, seem to bek)ng to the present species, Mr. 

 J. 11. Ourney wrote to Mr. Robert Ilidgway on August 15, 1801, as fol- 

 lows: 1 find among my father's peregrine falcons two specimens from 

 the Kuril ishmds wliicli are young l)irds and are veiy dark indeed all 

 over, an<l especially on the breast, belly, and under the wing. They 

 are far the darkest we have and are evidently your Falco pealei. 



I observed a l)lackish falcon on North Mshishir August 24, 1890, 

 which I have no hesitation in [)ronouncing F. pealei. 



85. P^ALCO SUBBUTEO Linnaeus. 321. 

 86. FALCO AESALON Linnaeus. 322. 



Snow enumerates these two species without further particulars. 

 They are [)robably among those which mostly freciuent the southern 

 islands." 



' Notes Kuril IhI., p. 32. • lUakiston and Pryer, i>. 12!); .Snow, Notes Kuril 1h1., p. 'M6. 

 2 Idem, p. 35. -Zoogr., \, ji. '.'/M. 



■'Pa^e 128. ''Notes Kuril Isl., p. 3«. 



