CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 683 
for my gun they left, but a thorough acquaintance with Motacdla 
alba in Egypt, where it is abundant during the winter, leaves me no 
doubt that these birds were wagtails. (Bzshop.) 
CCLXI. BUDYTES Cuvier. 1817. 
696. Alaskan Yellow Wagtail. 
Budytes flavus alascensis RIDGWAY. 1904. 
The yellow wagtail of eastern Siberia extending across Behring 
sea into that portion of Alaska in the region of Behring strait, is 
one of the handsomest among its several related forms. The first 
specimens were obtained in the vicinity of St. Michael where it was 
found abundant during the summers of 1866 and 1867. In Alaska 
I found this bird along the coast as far south as the Yukon mouth, 
where it arrived May 28th, 1879, but was extremely rare. St. 
Michael, on Norton sound, appears to be the centre of its abundance 
on our coast, and thence north it becomes rarer until at Kotzebue 
sound it is, as at the Yukon mouth, very rare. (Nelson.) This 
bird arrives about June 12th and is very shy. Few females come 
with the earliest visitants, yet but few days elapse before mating 
begins. (Turner.) One adult male and two others were obtained 
July 11th, 1898, at Point Barrow, Alaska. (Wdatmer Stone.) 
CCLXII. ANTHUS BEcuHSTEIN. 1807. 
697. American Pipit. 
Anthus pensilvanicus (LATH.) THIENEM. 1849. 
The first specimens of this species were seen in Cumberland gulf, 
May 30th, 1879. In the autumn they leave for the south about the 
beginning of September. At Annanactook harbour, the nest was 
always placed deep in a rock crevice, so far in, in fact, that I could 
not secure any of the nests that I found. On the Greenland coast, 
especially in the vicinity of habitations, they build in a tussock 
much like a sparrow, but there the ravens are not so numerous or 
destructive to birds and eggs as in Cumberland sound. The species 
is generally distributed on both sides of Cumberland sound, and the 
west shore of Davis strait to lat. 68° N., at least, but nowhere very 
abundant. (Kumlien.) Supposed to breed in Greenland not further 
