ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS 

 MADE BY MR. COPLEY AMORY, JR., IN NORTHEAST- 

 ERN SIBERIA. 



By J. H. Riley, 



Aid, Division of Birds, United States National Museum. 



Mr. Copley Amory, jr., accompanied the Koren Expedition to the 

 Kolyma River region of northeastern Siberia in 1914, where the 228 

 specimens of birds and few sets of eggs listed in the following report 

 were collected, and generously presented to the United States Na- 

 tional Museum.^ 



TVliile the collection contains no novelities, it included a number 

 of forms previously unrepresented in the museum, and the series 

 of hazel grouse from the Kolyma has enabled me to describe a new 

 form from further south.* 



A brief sketch of Mr. Arnory's route has already been published* 

 iind Mr. B. Alexander, who accompanied the expedition, collecting 

 fossils for the Smithsonian Institution, has published in the same 

 number (pp. 31-40) an account of the country along the lower 

 Kolyma and the Little and Big Annuj rivers, tributaries of the 

 Kolyma. Mr. Amory, besides collecting on the two Annuj rivers, the 

 lower Kolyma, and the coast, collected further up the Kolyma in the 

 wooded area at Verkhni and in the foot hills of the Tomus Chaja 

 mountains to the west of Verkhni. 



Mr. Koren had previously made a trip to the same region, the 

 birds of which have been reported upon by Thayer and Bangs,* who 



* On his way north along the Alaskan coast Mr. Amory collected examples of the follow- 

 ing species : 



Pufflnus tenuirostris (Temminck). (Bristol Bay.) 



Lams brachijrhynchus Richardson. (Kodiak Island.) 



Heteractitis incanus (Gmelin). (Kodiak Island.) 



Histrionicus histrionicus paciflcus Brooks. (Kodiak Island.) 



Passerculus sandicichensis sandtoichensis (Gmelin). (King's Cove.) 



Melospiza melodia insignis Baird. (Kodiak Island.) 



Corvus caurinus Baird. (Kodiak Island.) 



Pica pica hud^onica Sabine. (Kodiak Island.) 



" Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 29, 1916, p. 17. 



3 Smiths. Misc. CoU., vol. 66, No. 3, 1916, pp. 46-51. 



* Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 5, April, 1914, pp. 1-48, with an outline map of 

 the region. 



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