324 Mr. S. Merrill on Birds 



I never saw them following a ship like D. niyripes, and so 

 have never had an opportunity of admiring their flight at 

 close quarters. Their range seems to extend much further 

 to the north than that of the other species, as I found them 

 in Ukinsk Bay, Kamschatka, in latitude nearly 60° N., and 

 adults were constantly in view on most days during a voyage 

 from Petropavlosk to Hakodate between the 31st of August 

 and the 6th of September. The Diomede Islands in Bering's 

 Straits seem to have been named after this bird. On the 

 other hand, I have observed it nearly as far south as the 

 " Gooney " ; thus I saw an adult on the 23rd of May, 1897, 

 when nearing the Japanese coast on my way from Shanghai, 

 and another on the previous day, at a distance of about 44 

 hours run from Wohsung, on the voyage to Japan. 



On the eastern side of Bering's Sea this species is found 

 in the neighbourhood of the Pribiloff Islands *, but I did not 

 notice it on the voyage from Unalashka to Port Townshend 

 in the end of October 1896. 



XXXI. — On Birds new to Palestine. By Selah Merrill, 

 Andover, Mass., U.S.A. f 



Among the 2,000 birds which I collected while in Pales- 

 tine, from 1882 to 1886, there are several which, so far 

 as I know, are new to that country, and hence they should 

 be added to the list of those alread} r known. Dr. Tristram's 

 catalogue (in the ' Fauna and Flora of Palestine ') is the 

 one followed, and to this the additions are supposed to be 

 made. 



(1) Brambling — Fringilla montifringilla. 



* Mr. William Palmer's "The Avifauna of the Pribiloff Islands " in 

 ' The Fur Seals and Fur Seal Islands of the North Pacific/ Washington, 

 Government Printing Office, 1899, pp. 381, 382. 



f Keprinted from the ' Quarterly Statement ' of the Palestine 

 Exploration Fund, January 1890, pp. 41-43. [We have thought it 

 advisable to reprint this article, as it seems to have quite escaped the 

 notice of ornithologists, and is of considerable interest. — Edd.] 



