294 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. volxxi. 



from Mr. Dresser as having been procured by Mr. Snow on the Kuril 

 islands were really collected on the noitlierninost islands. According 

 to yeebohni, the specimens belong to the Kanichatkan form described 

 by me, while one, he says, might be called Pica caudata leucoptera. 

 This is evidently only a young bird of the same form. 



130. STURNIA VIOLACEA (Boddaertj. 203. 



Snow says that this bird was noticed on Ituruj* ' and Nakisbon, and 

 Pryer-* adds that it was observed there in September. 



131. EMBERIZA PERSONATA Temminck. 272. 



This bird was common at Shana, Itnrup, during my visit, September 

 4 to (J, 1.S1H>, and Blakiston and Pryer ' mention it also as c<dle(;ted on 

 that isliind. One of these specimens (No. 277.'>, Blakiston), collected 

 September IH, 1.S81, is in the U. S. National Museum. 



132. EMBERIZA YESSOENSIS (Swinhoe). 277. 



133. EMBERIZA CIOPSIS Bonaparte. 268. 



134. EMBERIZA FUCATA Pallas. 269. 



135. EMBERIZA RUSTICA Pallas. 271. 



136. EMBERIZA AUREOLA Pallas. 273. 



The enumeration of these five species by Cai)tain Snow * is the only 

 evidence of their occurrence in the Kurils. The first three are proba- 

 bly confined to the southern islands, the hist mentioned to the northern 

 ones, while IJ. rnntka may occur in both grou[)S. 



137. PLECTROPHENAX NIVALIS (Linnaeus). 279. 



Seebolim had in his collection two specimens obtained by Mr. Snow 

 from the Kuril islands.'' 



138. CALCARIUS LAPPONICUS (Linnaeus). 



An adult male in full breeding plumage collected by Snow in the 

 Kurils is in the Seebohm collection.'* Curiously enough both these 

 species are left out of Snow's list. 



139. PINICOLA ENUCLEATOR (Linnaeus). 291. 



Two specimens are known to have been collected in the Kurils, both 

 ai)i)arently without definite locality. One of them was in the Kaita- 

 kushi (collection in Sapporo,'' the other, a specimen in female plumage, 

 was obtained by Messrs. Owston, Snow «& Co.'s collectors, in 1882." 



• Notes Kuril Isl., p. 36. 



■^ Page 140. 



=' Page 170. 



■I Notes Kuril Isl., p. 37. 



'' B. Jap. Emj)., p. 140. 



''Ulakiston iiiid I'rycr, p. 17.5. 



'Blakiston, CbryBantLemimi, April, 18S3; Ahk-ikI. Jj. V,. .lap., p. 63. 



