OLD CROW 221 



Family SYLVIIDAE: Old World Warblers, Gnatcatchers, Kinglets 



Regulus calendula calendula (Linnaeus) 



1 male June 3 weight 6.7 g. no fat testes 4x5 mm. 



On May 17 a kinglet was observed. The male which was collected 

 was in company with another, apparently its mate. Joe Kay remarked 

 that kinglets were sometimes seen in winter at Old Crow, where they 

 are called by the Indians Khut traluk. We have also had reports from 

 Eskimos at Anaktuvuk and Kobuk, Alaska, that kinglets were oc- 

 casionally seen there in winter, but these reports are not confirmed by 

 winter specimens. 



In the northwest the kinglets are all R. c. calendula. The winter 

 range of this race is eastward and southward from Nebraska ( A.O.U., 

 Check-list, 1957), so it is likely that the northwestern population 

 migrates southeasterly along the eastern parts of the mountains. 

 Eecords are scarce in British Columbia (Munro and Cowan, 

 1947), whereas Eand (1946) found these kinglets "fairly common" 

 in southern Yukon. 



Family MOTACILLIDAE: Wagtails and Pipits 



Anthus spinoletta rubescens (Tunstall) 



13 males May6-June9 weight 18.8-23.6, fat (8), medium fat 



average 20.7 g. (1), little fat (3), 



no fat (1) 



Joe Kay on May 8, brought in the first two specimens of pipits, 

 which the Indians call Kwit hhyo zyo. For six days they occasionally 

 alighted in the meadow by the river near our cabin. Some of the 

 flocks seen contained 12 pipits, but because they were usually so rest- 

 less we could not form an estimate as to how many were migrating 

 through Old Crow, The first eight specimens obtained near the 

 village and during migration were fat males with testes less developed 

 (5 to 7 mm.) than when they were found later on the mountain. 



After May 15 pipits were not seen near the river. In June they 

 were occasionally heard and seen in grassy or rocky places above 

 2500 feet in the mountains where three males were collected. Their 

 testes were then enlarged, (8 to 9 mm.) they had little or no fat, and 

 appeared to be occupants of breeding territories. 



Our specimens of pipits from Old Crow (13), Anaktuvuk (33), 

 and Ahlasuruk (2) are identified as A. s. rubescens^ the range of which 

 is thus extended across arctic Yukon and Alaska to within 200 miles 

 of the western arctic coast. A. s. 'pacificus has been named by Bailey 

 (1948) as the race at Barrow, and northern Alaska and Northeastern 



