420 Dr. E. Hartert on Birds from 



" Habitat in Europa et America arctica." Tvp. loc. Sweden, 

 from first quotation " Pn. Suec. 95 "). 



2 $ ad. Mouth of Lena River, 12. vii. 1903. "Eye light 

 hazel ; legs and toes fleshy-slate-coloured, toes lighter fleshy, 

 webs black ; bill dull olive-green, top of culmeu black." 

 (Nos. 266, 267.) 



23. Glaucionetta clangula (L.). 



Anas clangula Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 125 (1758 : 

 " Habitat in Europa." Tvp. loc. Sweden, ex 'Fauna Suecica,' 

 100). 



? ad. Miankiaria River, Lena River, 23. vii. 1903. "Bill 

 black ; legs orange, with blackish-brown webs and claws ; 

 iris ivory-white with a yellow tinge." (No. 350.) 



24. Akchibuteo lagopus palljdus Menzb. 

 Archibnteo pallidas Menzbicr, Orn. du Turkestan, i. p. 163 



(1888 : Siberia, Karatau, Vernoy). 



<$ ? . Bulun, 17. vii. 1903. (A mated pair.) "Iris pale 

 hazel; toes elirome-yellow, nails blackish; cere chrome- 

 yellow ; bill bluish horn-grey." (Nos. 293, 29-1.) 



It seems that Siberian specimens of Archibuteo are, as a 

 rule, paler, especially on the bead, scapulars, wing-coverts, 

 and tail, than Scandinavian and North-Russian examples. 

 I have therefore provisionally adopted Menzbier's name for 

 the Siberian form. 



[This pair of Buzzards had a nest in a cliff on the river 

 some 300-400 ft. above the water. Both birds flew savagely 

 at the strangers.] 



25. EUTOLMAETUS PENNATUS (Gill.). 



Falco pennatus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 272 (1788). 



$ ad. Gigalowa, 17. viii. 1903. "Iris orange." (No. 

 398.) 



[The call was made up of four varied creaky notes, with 

 a normal note leading.] 



names. The genus Clangula Leach, in Ross's Voy. Discov., App. p. xlviii, 

 was so obviously created for the Long-tailed Duck that discussion about it 

 is, in my opinion, unnecessary. 



