408 THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBH.OF ISLANDS. 



Mr. Elliott is of special interest and iraportaiice, since it is eonclnsively determined 



to be the true Asiatic fiilvns and not the North American var. virfjinicvs.^^ (Couci.) 



I saw but one. It was alone in the grass of the village pond on St. Paul. ''A few 

 stragglers land in April, or early in May, on their way noith to breed, but never 

 remain long. Tliey return in greater number in the latter part of September, and 

 grow fat upon the larvae generated on the killing grounds, leaving for the soutii by 

 the end of October."— (^///o/^) Coinde says of Mr. Warneck's specimens: '< Three 

 examples of this species have be(m given me exactly identical with individuals that 

 we find in Europe. They had been killed in the port of St. J'aul the LStli and 20th of 

 April, 1852.'' In the male the black of the under parts has a few white old worn 

 feathers in the center of the breast and a few on the throat; the female has some few 

 new black feathers mixed in witii the old plumage on, the breast. Both specimens are 

 unchanged otherwise, and the feathers are well worn on the back and wings. No 

 molting feathers are to be found on the birds. No. 04273, ad. 9 , May 1 , 1873, St. Paul 

 H. W. E. Wing, 6.37; tarsus, 1.70. No. 119085, ad. S , June 12, 1800, St. Paul, W. p! 

 Length, !).75; extent, 21.75; wing,G.50; culmen,0.93; tarsus, 1.78. Stomach contents: 

 "Ten predaceous beetles [Varahidne) and seeds of crowberry {Empeirum nu/nim) "— 

 S. J). J. 



5"! Aegialitis semipalniata lion.ap. Si!nii]);iliiiat<(l IMovcr. 



AigiaJiiis Kemipalmatus, Siiaim-i.;, Cat. H. lir. Miis. XXIV, ISilfi, 250. 



AegialHis srmipalniatd, A. (). U. Cli. List, IK!)."., 100.— Ridgway, Man. ISim, 170. 



Ae[gialilis] semipulmatiia, Coues, Key, 1890, fi02. 



I saw none, nor did Mr. Elliott. Mr. 1). W. Prentis.s, jr., secured one in very worn 

 j)lumage from a Hock at Northeast Point. No. 15354:5, ad. 9 , .Inly ii, 1S05, St! Paul 

 1). W. l\,jr. Wing, 4.70; culmen, 0.40; tarsus, 0.87. 



Family ARENARIIDAE. Turnstones. 

 Genus ARENARIA. — 



GcniiN f7mmc<ers.— Non])almate hind toe shore birds of moderate size, about 11 

 inches long; culmen, shorter than head or tarsus; bill, hard, gently tapering from a 

 stoutish base and with a slightly upward trend toward tip; black or blackish across 

 breast and shoulders; under ))arts and upper and middle back white; tail coverts 

 white; tail, white, witii apical half broadly banded with black or blackish; axillaries, 

 white; feet and tarsi, robust; niidtoe little shorter than tarsus; tarsi, regularly ami 

 broadly scaled in front, smaller scaled ami reticulated behind, 



GEOCltAPniCAr, DISTIillil'lION- OV IIIIC SPKCIKS. 



Europe, Asia, Africa and Pacilic islands, Western Alaska from the Aleutians to Point Harrow; Green- 

 Land. Breeds from .lapan .and Alaska westward around to tlie more northern Itritish islands, 

 Azores (?), and Greenland t. interim s 



America from the Arctic regions north of Hudson l?ay and westward to the Mackenzie River, .alou" 

 the Atlantic waterslied, thouf^h K«'ncrally coastwise, to Pat-aRonia and the Falkland Islands! 

 Riire on the Pacilic 8loi)e. Hreeds al.out Hudson H.ay, north w.ard and eastward.. A. morimUa. 



Western Alaska from the Arctic Ocean to and through California. Breeds in northwestern Alaska. 



A. melanoci'phaJn. 



