652 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



the window on the ground, not more than seven feet from my 

 eyes, and which I believe to be this species. I failed, however, 

 to procure it and hence there is an element of doubt in the iden- 

 tification. {Turner.) On the morning of August 28th the Robert 

 Kerr, On which I was a passenger, was hindered from proceeding 

 by a gale and low water on the bar, and was made fast to the 

 bank at the Aphoon mouth of the Yukon. As I came on deck I 

 saw half a dozen white wagtails fly about the vessel and settle in 

 the grass close by. While I returned for my gun they left, but a 

 thorough acquaintance with Motacilla alba in Egypt, where it is 

 abundant during the winter, leaves me no doubt that these birds 

 were wagtails. {Bishop!) 



CCXXXV. BUDYTES Cuvier. 181 7. 



696. Siberian Yellow Wagtail. 



Budytes flavus leucostriatus (Hom.) Stejn. i8§5. 

 The yellow wagtail of eastern Siberia extending across Behring 

 Sea into that portion of Alaska in the region of Behring Strait, is 

 one of the handsomest among its several related forms. The first 

 specimens were obtained in the vicinity of St. Michael where it 

 was found abundant during the summers of 1866 and 1867. In 

 Alaska I found this bird along the coast as far south as the 

 Yukon mouth, where it arrived May 28th, 1879, but was extremely 

 rare. St. Michael, on Norton Sound, appears to be the centre of 

 its abundance on our coast,and thence north it becomes rarer until 

 at Kotzebue Sound it is, as at the Yukon mouth,very rare. {Nelson.) 

 This bird arrives about June 12th and is very shy. Few females 

 come with the earliest visitants, yet but few days elapse before 

 mating begins. {Turner.) One adult male and two others wei-e 

 obtained July nth, 1898, at Point Barrow, Alaska. {Wiimer Stone .) 



CCXXXVI. ANTHUS Bechstein. 1807. 



697. American Fipit. 



AHthus pensilvanicus (Lath.) Thienem. 1849. 

 ^ The first specimens of this species were seen in Cumberland 

 Giilf, May 30th, 1879. In the autumn they leave for the south 

 about thie beginning of Septertiber. At Anrianactdok Hai-bout, 

 the nest was alwkys placed deep in a roek crevice, so far in, in 

 fact, that I could not secure an^ of the liests that I found. On 



