iSS^.] Stkjnf.gkr ()// ri jVc-w Woodpcc K-it from Kamt^c haf h(i . T^Z^ 



reproduction of his own cry. The third pair I saw on a sand-l)ar 

 at Shinnccock Inlet. They were in company with some Ameri- 

 can Herring Gulls. They also were adult and young-. 



14. Alle nigricans Z/;//-. Sea Dove ; Dovekie. — Decem- 

 ber 7. 1SS2, Mr. C. A. Blydenhurgh, first assistant keeper of 

 Fire Island Light, sent me a female of this species, which he 

 found dead on the beach. Ten days later he sent me another, and 

 wrote as follows: 'T found one Sea Dove which I will send you 

 with this. The men at the Life Saving Station had three Sea 

 Doves before I got one. One of the men from the next station 

 east told me thev found one this winter. That makes six 2oicked 

 up along here." In answer to an inquiry, Mr. L. S. Foster, of 

 New York Citv, wrote me as follows: "My Long Island 

 information concerning 7^-^' Alle nigricans^ is as follows : 

 The specimen in my cabinet 'was caught on my patrol, in my 

 midnight watch, the night of the 23d of December, iSSi. June 

 Bishop, Life Saving Station, oti' Centre Moriches, L. I.' One 

 was found dead in the meshes of a net near the same locality, 

 November, 1SS3. One was brought on the cars of the Long 

 Island railroad at Bayport by a gunner, November, 1882, 'having 

 been shot in a pool.' " 



(A 

 DENDROCOPOS PUR US, A NEW SPECIES OF 



WOODPECKER FROM KAMTSCHATKA. 



BY LEOXHARD STEJNEGER. 



Dendrocopos purus, n. sp. 



DiAGN : Sunilis D. majori (L.) a quo diftert : pectore et abdomine supe- 

 riore purissime albo, rectricibus lateralibus albis fere immaculatis et pogo- 

 nio externo remigum primarium longissimarum apice albonotato. 



Hab: Kamtschatka; accid. Insula Beringii. 



This species is closely related to D. major (L.) but difters in having 

 the breast and upper abdomen very pure white, the white of the 

 lateral rectrices without or almost without dark markings, and possessing 

 a white spot on the outer web of the longest primaries near the tip. 



The types of this form, two males and one female (U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 

 92701. 92702 and 92703), were collected by me on Bering Island, oft the 



