/;//.'/>.v OF riih: in'itiL islands— st/cj .\/<:<; /<:/:. 293 



122. PARUS KAMTSCHATKENSIS (Bonaparte). ? 



Tlio occurrence of this species is only known (Voui a specimen inen- 

 tioited by Praziik ;is liaving been obtained in Paraninsliir.' It is 

 somewhat doubt fnl, liowevei', wlietlier this si)ecimen really belongs to 

 the- typical Kamchatkan bird, for he says tlmt it is consid^Mably grayer 

 and approaching;- I'. Ixdcalciisifi. It is not unlikely Miat I'aramushir is 

 iidiahited by a distinct race. 



123. PARUS VARIUS Temminck and Schlegel. 218. 



Enumerated by Snow, but no pailiculars j;iven.^ 



124. AEGITHALOS CAUDATUS (Linnaeus). 220. 

 Same remark as al»ove. 



125. CORVUS CORONE ORIENTALIS (Eversmann). 190, 



126. CORVUS MACRORHYNCHUS JAPONENSIS (Bonaparte). 189. 



Botli Species noted by Snow as (xtcurrinj; on the southern Kuiiis 



only,"' an«l by IJIakiston and Pryer' spiM-irn^ally as found on Iturnp. 



Seebolim had specimens of both species (tolh^ited by Snow in the 



Kurds.' 



127. CORVUS CORAX Linnaeus. 191. 



The laven's Kuril nannr is yivcn by Pallas as Pashnr:' Snow col- 

 lected it and sent specimens to lilakiston and JMyer, by whom they 

 were distributed to the Hakodate Museum" and to Seebohm's collec- 

 tion." Snow says that the raven is to be found on (ncry island in the 

 chain, always in pairs, and that it brccMis eaily, the youu;;" bein^ found 

 about the middhi of -Inne.' I inys<Uf observed it on Mushir Kocks 

 August 21i, on llaikoke August L'.'», and on North Mushir August 21. 

 A specimen, exccissively lean and in wretched plumage, was obtained 

 the following day on South Ushishir (No. ino.'Jt;.!, U.S.N.M.) 



128. NUCIFRAGA CARYOCATACTES JAPONICUS Hartert. 197. 



On Ketoi island llu^re is a pat(di of Or trees on a slope facing tlie 

 northern shore, according to Snow, and amongst these trees he came 

 across a colony of nutcrackers. Pallas" mentions expressly that the 

 Ziibeldchte (/'tH?A.s' />»?w/7^f) occurs on Ketoi, and ('aplain Sn()w's tind 

 of these isolated colonies of tiees and birds togethcM- in such an unlik(;ly 

 place is highly interesting. 



129. PICA CAMTSCHATICA Stejneger. 



Pallas gives Kakulc as the Kurilian mime for the magpie," and it is 

 conscipiently not improliablc that the specimens whi«;h Seebolim got 



i()rnitli..J:ilir))., ISK."., VI, |>.7(). 'I'aKo llL'. 



^NotoH Kuril lHl.,p. lUi. ' H. .Jjiji. Minp., p. !M, 



■'I'iiK*' Ml. «Ncn« Nonl. \W,'^U\, MHW, IV, p. UK. 



' 15. .I:ip. Kinp., pp. Wy, \)V,. '/ooKr,, I, p. IJHt). 



'■Zoo;ri-., 1^ p. HSO. 



