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singing about the tent continually, probably with his mate on a 

 nest somewhere near by. At Boca de Quadra, Chickamin River, 

 Portage Cove and Etolin Island they were seen or else heard 

 singing in the woods occasionally, but were anything but abun- 

 dant. At Bradfield Canal, July 18 to 26, the first juvenals were 

 seen flying about. A few were observed at Zarembo Island, and on 

 Mitkof Island they were quite abundant in the masses of drift 

 along the beach. On the Taku River many were seen during the 

 first two weeks in September, but they nearly all disappeared by 

 the middle of the month. The last was observed on September 24. 

 Nine specimens were secured : two adults from Kuiu Island 

 (no. 9107) and Shakan, Prince of Wales Island (no. 9108), and 

 seven in juvenal plumage : two from Bradfield Canal (nos. 9409- 

 9410), one from Zarembo Island (no. 9411), and four from 

 Mitkof Island (nos. 9412-9415). 



Certhia familiaris occidentalis Ridgway. Tawny Creeper. 



Seen at but very few points. On Kupreanof Island, the 

 first arrival, a single bird was observed on April 20, and on 

 April 23 two were seen and one of them secured. The species 

 was not met with again until we reached Zarembo Island at the 

 end of July, where several were seen within a few days, though 

 curiously enough, none was noted on neighboring islands visited 

 immediately before and after. A single bird, seen, but not 

 secured, at Port Snettisham on August 26 completes the list of 

 records for the summer. 



Five specimens w^ere secured : an adult male from Kupreanof 

 Island (no. 9416) and an adult (no. 9418) and three juvenals 

 (nos. 9417, 9419, 9420) from Zarembo Island. The single adult 

 from Kupreanof Island, in fresh, unworn plumage, exhibits the 

 characteristics of occidentalis to a marked degree, the upper 

 parts generally being suffused with tawny cinnamon to such an 

 extent that there are no pure white markings anywhere, either 

 on back or wings. The only other adult secured (female, 

 Zarembo Island, July 30), is in exceedingly shabby, abraded 

 plumage, but is nevertheless evidently to be referred to this 

 form. The three young birds, all in full juvenal plumage, are 

 also unquestionably occidentalis, being markedly cinnamomeous 



