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always more or less confluent ; post-ocular white stripe much more distinct 

 and dark bars of sides much narrower. Hab. Alaska and northern British 

 America. 



2. Astur atricapillus henshawi. Henshaw's Goshawk. — Subsp. 

 Char. : — Much darker than true atricapillus. Adult with the back slaty 

 black, instead of plumbeous, and lower parts very coarsely and heavily 

 marked with dusky. Young with lower parts broadly striped with brown- 

 ish black, and tibise heavily spotted with the same. Hab. Pacific coast 

 region, from southern Arizona to Sitka, Alaska. 



ANALECTA ORNITHOLOGICA. 



BY LEONARD STEJNEGER. 



I. The occurrence of Turdus alicice in the Pal.^- 

 ARCTic Region. 



In his 'The Birds of Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean' (Cruise 

 of the Corwin, Notes, p. 57), Mr. E. W. Nelson states that 

 Turdus (^Hylocichla) alicice Baird is found "across into Kamt- 

 schatka" ; and a h'ttle later he says, "the record of the bird from 

 Kamtschatka renders certain its presence on the adjoining shores 

 of Northeastern Siberia." 



I am not aware of any record of this species having ever been 

 found in Kamtschatka, neither do I believe that it has been 

 or ever will be found there. Mr. Nelson's statement probably 

 rests on a mistake. The fact is, that the bird in question really 

 has been found, and found breeding, and rather numerous, in that 

 part of Northeastern Siberia where Nelson only supposes it to be 

 found on account of its alleged occurrence in Kamtschatka. 



The Russian Astronomical Expedition to Cape Tschukotsk 

 found Turdus alicice breeding in the neighborhood of the station, 

 and several specimens were brought to Irkutsk, and by the Geo- 

 graphical Society placed in the University Museum of that city, 

 where they have been seen by Dr. Dybowski. They were 

 destroyed by the great fire at the museum, but at least one 

 specimen had previously been forwarded by that gentleman to the 

 museum of Warsaw. The identity of this specimen was deter- 

 mined by Prof. Dr. Cabanis of Berlin.* 



* Cf. Taczanowski, Journ. f. Ornith., 1872, p. 440, and 1873, p. 112; ibid. Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, 1876, p. 148 ; ibid., Krit. Obz. Ornit. Fauna Vost. Sibiri (1877) p. 32. 



