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57. Palco peregrinus anatum (Bonap.). Duck Hawk. 



Falco communis, Shakpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. I, 1874, 376 (part). 



-F[aZco] peregrinus, Coues, Key, 1890, 534. 



Falco peregrinus anatum, A. O. U. Ch. List, 1895, 138. — Ridgway, Man. 1896, 247. 



An early spring- and late fall migrant, but some may winter. ''Usually seen as a 

 mere dot circling high up in the air, and are sometimes shot by the natives as they 

 come in over the bluff's in bad weather." (Natives.) I dug the remains of one from a 

 sand dune; it had been killed the previous December. A large hawk seen on St. 

 George during the summer of 1890 may have been of this species. 



Family BUBONIDAE. Horned Owls, etc. 



58. Asio accipitrinus (Pall.). Short-eared Owl. 



Asio accipitrinus, Sharps, Cat. B. Br. Mus. II, 1875, 334.— Coues, Key, 1890, 507.— A. O. U. Cli. 

 List, 1895, 142.— Ridgway, Man. 1896, 258. 



One was seen by Mr. Elliott and myself on the north side of the village hill on 

 St. Paul June 17, 1890. The same or another had been seen by Mr. Elliott up the 

 island in May. This bird often visited the same place during the night or early in the 

 morning to feed upon the least anklets which were breeding in the vicinity. I often 

 found on the moss a round patch of feathers, which showed the fate of a Choochkie. 

 A few are seen every winter by the natives, but they all agree that hawks and owls 

 are more abundant on St. George, owing to the presence of numerous lemmings, which 

 are entirely absent from St. Paul. An owl, No. 68348, 9 , is recorded on the Museum 

 catalogue as having been taken by G. E. Adams February 12, 1874. I have been 

 unable to find it. 



59. Nycteanyctea (Linn.). Snowy OwL 



Nyctea scandiaca, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. II, 1875, 125.— Coues, Key, 1890, 510. 

 Nyctea nyctea, A. O. U. Ch. List, 1895, 149.— Ridgway, Man. 1896, 264. 



Usually seen in winter, but occasionally in summer. One was killed on St. George 

 June 10, 1890, which had been seen repeatedly since and during the previous winter. 

 I killed one on St. Paul on June 13, 1890. One of the Treasury agents shot seven 

 during the winter of 1884-85. Mr. E. A. Lucas saw three during the summer of 189<i. 

 June 13, 1890, St. Paul, ad. $ . Length, 2450; extent, 58.00; wing, 16.25. Stomach 

 contents: full of the flesh and feathers of the least auklet. — ( ^¥. P. and Dr. A. K. F.) 



Order COGGYGES. Cuckoos, etc. 

 Family CUCULIDAE. Cuckoos, Anis, etc. 



60. Cuculus canorus telephonus (Heine). Siberian Cuckoo. 



Cuculus canorus, Shelly, Cat. B. Br. Mus. XIX, 1891, 245 (part). 



Cuculus canorus telephonus, Palmer, Auk, 1894, 325. — Ridgway, Man. 1896, 596. — Bendire, 

 Life Hist. II, 1896, 32.— A. O. U. Ch. List, 1895, 155. 



Above, plain bluish-gray, darker across back and on wing coverts, paler on fore- 

 head; chin, throat, and chest light ash-gray, darkening on sides of head and neck; 

 under parts, buff'y-white with narrow blackish bars; tail, dark bluish- gray, blackening 

 toward tip, each retrix white tipped and white spotted at intervals along shafts, 

 smaller on central and larger on external ones, the basal spotting forming bars ; inner 

 edges of rectrices, saw-edged with white; wings, brownish; primaries, white spotted 

 along inner edges; lateral and basal edges of longest upper tail coverts narrowly 



