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THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



PASSERINA NIVALIS. 



Cat. 

 num- 

 ber. 



Sex. 



Date. 



Locality. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Culmcn. 



Tarsus. 



887.52 



({ 

 d 

 d 



9 



9 

 9 



May 8, 1882 

 Apr. 9,1882 

 Ai>r. 24,1882 

 June 18, 1882 

 July 3, 1886 

 June, 1885 

 .JllIlt^ 19,1882 

 .Tune 18, 18>i2 

 Apr. 30, 1868 

 J line 22, 1883 



Point Barrow 





4.48 

 4.39 

 4.39 

 4.26 

 4.20 

 4.18 

 4.02 

 4. 00 

 4.00 

 3.90 



2.60 

 2.74 

 2.62 

 2.50 

 2.70 

 2.52 

 2.65 

 2.50 

 2.51 

 2.50 



0.40 

 .40 

 .40 

 .40 

 .41 

 .40 

 .42 

 .40 

 .38 

 .39 



0.87 

 .86 

 .88 

 .88 

 .87 

 .87 

 .88 

 .89 

 .85 

 .85 



887.51 



do 



do .... 



05560 



N u.sliagak 



C. L. McKay 



88748 



Point Barrow 



J. Mnrdock 



110128 



lonoen 



Aliaskaii Peninsula 



('a])e Lisl)urne 



J. W. Jolin.son 



H. D Wolfe 



8S754 



Point Barlow 



.T. Miir«l«>cV 



93111 



do 



do . 



54493 



Nulato 



W.H.Dall 



93d 12 



Point Barrow 









68. Acanthis liuaria (Linn.). Redpoll. 



Acanthis liuaria, Shakpk, Cat. B. Br. Miis. XII, 1888, 245.— A. O. U. Ch. List, 1895, 217.— Ridg- 



WAY, Mail. 1896, 397. 

 "Acgiothii," Elliott, Mon. Seal Ids. 1882, 136. 



Mr. Elliott collected several siiecimens on St. Paul, June 21, 1872. They were 

 preserved in alcohol, but have not been seen since. He saw others in October, 1872. 

 They doubtless occur as migrants in small Hocks. 



69. Leucosticte griseonucha (Brandt). Aleutian Rosy Finih " raioshhie." 



Leucosticte ieplirocotis var. grisciniicha, CouK.s, iu Elliott'.s Rpt. Aft'. Alaska, 1873; Iteprint, 1875 



174.— Ellioi r, Mon. Seal. Ids. 1882, 127. 

 Leucosticte tcphrocotix, Harting, Fanna Prybilov, 1875, 1(5. 

 Leucosticte fjriseiiiKcha, Dall and Bannistek, Trans. Chic. Ac. Sci. 1869, 282, PI. XXIV, fij;. 1.— 



Baird, t. c, PI. XXIV, ibid.— CouES, Key, 1890, 351. 

 Leucosticte griseonucha, Turner, Cout. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 171, PI. viii.— Nbl.son, Bds. 



Alaska, 1887, 176.— Townsenm>, Cruise, Corwin, 1887, 100.— A. O. U. Ch. List, 1895, 215.— 



Ridgway, Man. 1896, 391. 

 Montifringilla griseinucha, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. XII, 1888, 275. 



Dr. Dall collected a number of these birds on St. George in August, 1868. He 

 says: "This beautiful bird had no song at that season except a clear chirp, sounding 

 like " wcet-a-weet-a-wee-wcet." It was on the wing a great part of the time, avoiding 

 lighting on the ground, but darting rapidly in a series of ascending and descending 

 curves, now swinging on the broad top of an umbelliferous ])lant and now alighting 

 on some ledge of the perpendicular bluff, jumping from point to point, and seemingly 

 delighting in testing their own agility." Unlike the longspur, which is never seen 

 about the houses in summer, and the snowHake, which is not often found at the same 

 place, the. pahtoskie appears in the greatest abundance about the villages of St. Paul 

 and St. George, and even freciuents the houses and streets. "This agreeable little 

 bird, always cheerful and self-possessed, is a regular and permanent settler on the 

 islands, which it never leaves. In the depth of dismal winter, as well as on a sum- 

 mer's day, tlie pahtoskie greets you with the same pleasant chirru]), wearing the 

 same neat dress, as if determined to make the best of everything." — {Elliott.) They 

 love to stay about the bold cliffs, in the chinks and crevices of which they build their 

 ratlier large nests, and about the rocks of which they obtain tlie great part of their 

 insect food. I have picked from the mouth of a freshly killed bird the most minute- 

 insects, and have watched them feeding on the drying carcass of a seal hanging out- 

 side the house of an Aleut, and they do not scorn the possibilities afforded by the 

 decaying seal carcasses on the killing ground. I have seen no specimens of nestlings. 



