618 



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from European specimens and it may be that the differences in the 

 color of the back pointed out for S. u. pallasi are due to the fresher 

 condition of the specimens. 

 The series measures as follows : 



U.S.N.M. 

 No. 



237393 

 237394 

 237395 

 237392 

 237391 

 237390 

 109868 



98031 

 1S21 



41010 



Sex. 



Male 



...do... 

 ...do.... 



Female. 

 ...do.... 

 ...do.... 



Male 



Female. 



Locality. 



67 miles west of Verkhni 



do 



do 



do 



Verklini Koly msk 



Nijni Kolymsk 



Archangel", Russia 



Bergen, Norway 



Kinberg, Lapland 



Petropaulski, Kamtscliatka. 



Culmen 

 from cere. 



mm. 

 17 

 18 

 18 

 18 

 16.5 

 18 

 19 



18.5 

 19 

 15.5 



52. CRYPTOGLAUX FUNEREA MAGNA (Bnturlin). 



One male, Verkhni Kolymsk, Ai3ril 17, 1915. 



This specimen, when compared with European birds, is more nearly 

 hair brown on the back, in sharp contrast to the olive of the European 

 series before me; it also seems to have more white spotting on the 

 top of the head. The color of the back may be due to the freshness 

 of the specimen, however. It measures as follows : Wing, 169 ; tail, 

 101,5; culmen, 14. 



Family PICIDAE. 



53. DRYOCOPUS MARTIUS REICHENOWI Kothe. 



One male, 8 miles west of Verkhni Kolymsk, May 22, 1915 ; one 

 female, 80 miles from mouth of Little Annuj River, November 23, 

 1914. 



These are of the same deep black as a male specimen from Man- 

 churia and a female from north China, but have smaller bills.^ They 

 measure as follows: 



A winter resident in the Kolyma. Tlie first one observed was in November, 

 100 versts [67 miles] from Nijni Kolymsk on the Lesser Annuj (collected by 

 Axel Siindmark) in a larch next the river. In the winter I saw two skins 

 brought in by Chorkches, one to Nijni Kolymsk, the other to Verkhni Kolymslc. 

 The specimen taken 12 versts [8 miles] west of Verkhni Kolymsk had a nest 

 10 feet from the ground in the heart of the largest white birch I saw in the 

 valley. The nest tree was in a swampy, willow-covered locality, near the 



1 See Proc. Biol. See. Wash., voL 28, Sept. 21. 1915, p. 162. 



