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distinguish this bird from the other species of swallows it was 

 associated with at the time, and I have no doubt as to the cor- 

 rectness of the identification. 



Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot. Cedar Waxwing. 



A single bird, an adult male, taken June 22 on the Chickamin 

 River (no. 9355). This bird was feeding by itself in a spruce 

 tree, when my attention was drawn to it by its occasional utter- 

 ance of the low hissing sound peculiar to the species. This was 

 the only cedar bird seen during the summer; it had no appear- 

 ance of being a breeding bird, and was doubtless a straggler 

 from the interior, strayed down the river. It is, I believe, the 

 first individual of the species to be recorded from Alaska. 



Lanius borealis invictus Grrinnell. Alaska Shrike. 



Hasselborg saw a shrike on the Taku River on October 20, and 

 another at Game Cove, Admiralty Island, on November 8. He 

 was very close to the latter, but had no means of securing it, 

 and remarks that it is the only one of the species that he has 

 seen on any of the islands. 



Vermivora celata celata (Say). Orange-crowned Warbler." 



Met with only at Port Snettisham. It was seen high up on 

 the mountain sides only, beyond the timber and almost always 

 in thickets of Cladothamnus pyrolaeflorus, in company with 

 the Townsend and intermediate sparrows. Lutescens, which was 

 also common at Port Snettisham, was never seen in this asso- 

 ciation, but kept lower down, usually in the alders along the 

 beach, where celata was never observed. Possibly ten or twelve 

 individuals were seen in all. They were restless and shy, and 

 evidently migrating, flitting from bush to bush, or occasionally 

 rising high in the air manifestly for a long flight, and disappear- 

 ing in a southerly direction. 



Four specimens were secured, three in complete first winter 

 plumage (nos. 9493-9495), and one which has nearly finished the 

 molt from the juvenal to the first winter plumage (no. 9496). 

 An immature male (no. 9495) has the concealed orange crown 

 fairly well indicated. In the other three (all immature females) 



