Vol 'l906 in ] Anthony, Stray Notes from Alaska. 179 



in the Auk, Vol. XXII, 1905, p. 87, in which he refers to a Hud- 

 sonian Chickadee seen at Ipswich, Mass., on November 12, 1904, 

 as follows: "[he] was very finely seen while he gave a sweet war- 

 bling song." Of another bird, seen on November 25, he says: 

 "The Belmont bird was also well seen and gave a few notes of the 

 warbling song." 



STRAY NOTES FROM ALASKA. 



BY A. W. ANTHONY. 



As even fragmentary notes on the avifauna of northwestern 

 Alaska are by no means common I have ventured to offer the few 

 disjointed records which I noted during the winter of 1904-1905 

 on the Seward Peninsula. These records are from a region some- 

 what closely adjoining those so well covered by Messrs. Nelson and 

 Grinnell, and I would hesitate were it not for the fact that the coun- 

 try explored by myself is almost entirely open tundra, differing 

 from the St. Michaels region or that of Mr. Grinnell's camp on 

 Kotzebue Sound. The Seward Peninsula is more or less timbered 

 along the streams and mountains of its eastern part but the spruce 

 growth ceases abruptly between Long. 163° and 164°, west of 

 which nothing larger than arctic willows are to be found, save for 

 one or two small groves of stunted cottonwoods, which will be 

 mentioned more in detail further on. 



After the fall migration the Redpolls lingered along the willow 

 thickets until I had hopes that they would winter with us, fori could 

 not see any possibility of any other winter residents except the 

 Ptarmigan. A march of over a hundred miles in early October 

 failed to bring to light any other species but by October 15 the last 

 Redpoll had departed for the timbered regions along the Yukon, 

 leaving the tundras and wind-swept hills to the Rock and Willow 

 Ptarmigan, large flocks of which had appeared by October 1, in 

 more or less advanced winter dress. 



