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Calcarius lapponicus alascensis Eidgway. Alaska Longspur. 



An abundant .species on the grassy meadows bordering the 

 Taku River. During our stay at this point, September 4 to 28, 

 longspurs were seen almost daily, usually in flocks of from 

 twenty to thirty individuals, and evidently migrating. They 

 were hard to see in the tall grass in which they were feeding, and 

 still more difficult to secure, for they would sit quietly until 

 nearly trodden upon, when the whole flock would dart away 

 snnultaneously. 



They were observed at no other point, unless Hasselborg was 

 correct in his belief that a bird seen on the summit of Pin Peak, 

 Coronation Island (altitude 1300 feet), on May 16, belonged to 

 this species. 



The fourteen examples of the Alaska longspur collected 

 (nos. 9553-9566), all immatures in first winter plumage, bear out 

 the characters ascribed to the race, being conspicuously paler 

 and more buffy on the upper parts as compared with a series of 

 comparable fall specimens of lapponicus from Illinois. 



Passerculus sandw^ichensis sandw^ichensis (Gmelin). 



Aleutian Savannah Sparrow. 



Four specimens referable to this race were secured, one from 

 Three-mile Arm, Kuiu Island, May 3 (no. 9571), and three from 

 Egg Harbor, Coronation Island, May 15 (nos. 9567, 9568, 9570), 

 all adult males. As no examples of this subspecies were found 

 among the Savannah sparrows collected at other points, it looks 

 very much as though the line of migration of this form lies along 

 the extreme western edge of the archipelago ; and as Kuiu Island 

 lies actually farther north than the breeding ground of this 

 bird on Unalaska Island and the Alaska Peninsula, it may be 

 that instead of following the coast line any farther they strike 

 directly westward across the Gulf of Alaska. This assumption 

 is somewhat borne out by the fact that the 1908 Expedition 

 failed to find the species in the Prince William Sound region 

 (see Grinnell, 1910, p. 399), which must be traversed if the 

 coast line is followed. On Kuiu Island, on May 3, the first 



