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feed extensively on a green sea-urchin. Quantities of the shells were found well 
above high water and some on the hills. In all these the oral surface was broken. 
This echinoderm makes no hole in the rock as our Californian purple species does, 
so it can easily be taken at low tide. 
While on top of Besboro.Jsland, August 6, we witnessed a peculiar perform- 
ance. A raven was flying around the island high above the water. Every ten 
or fifteen seconds he folded on? wing and fell five or six feet like a tumbler 
pigeon. While falling he gave a peculiar call, then righting himself continued 
on his course. 
Leucosticte griseonucha (Brandt). — The Aleutian leucosticte was found only at 
Dutch Harbor. June 21 they were seen feeding about the wharves much as the 
English sparrow does in San Francisco. Two days later several were taken in 
the low hills on Amaknak, and a single specimen in young plumage was taken 
near the beach, October 4. 
Acanthis hornemanni exilipes (Coues). — The hoary redpoll was taken but 
twice, a pair at Golofnin Bay, June 26, and a male on Pathfinder Rock, July 17. 
Acanthis linaria (Linn.) — The redpoll was fairly abundant in many localities 
and was usually found in flocks of a dozen or more. Young birds predominated. 
Occasionally one or two adults were seen. A large flock of old and young were 
located in an alder thicket on Cape Denbigh and a few were found in the alders 
of Besboro. The species was also seen at Cape Darby, Fallax Point, Castle Rock 
and near Dexter. A dead male was found on Egg Island. 
Calcanus lapponicus alascensis Ridgw. — Longspurs were very numerous and 
probably nesting on Amaknak June 23, and were among the first birds seen at 
Golofnin Bay June 28. They were also abundant on the tundra plains about St. 
Michael. Adults and partly grown young were taken near Crater Mountain July 
II, and at Fallax Point they were seen in flocks August 24. The specimens taken 
about Dutch Harbor are considerably discolored with coal dust. 
Ammodramus sandwichensis (Gmel.). — In the rank grass growing on the sand 
spit north-east of Dutch Harbor Sandwich sparrows were very abundant the latter 
part of June. The species is also abundant on a flat to the westward of Dutch 
Harbor, near Captain’s Bay. Notes under date of June 22 are: “Collected nine 
sparrows on the sand-spit. They were usually shot from the dead flower stalk of 
a large umbelliferous plant, the stalk serving as a good marker. Two were shot 
on the rocks along the beach. Their song was seldom heard, but they were often 
detected by their call note, a sharp faint ‘tsp.’ They are rather fearless and in- 
quisitive. Ovaries and testes were large.’’ On our return trip young birds were 
taken at Amaknak, October 4. 
Ammodramus sandwichensis alaudinus (Bonap.). The western savanna spar- 
row was taken at Golofnin Bay, Fallax Point, Cairn, Crater Mountain, and on 
Besboro and Egg islands. A young bird was taken at Cape Denbigh. The bill 
in the Norton Bay birds is slightly longer than in birds from California. The tail 
is also a little longer and there is still a greater difference in the wing measure- 
ments. The material I have, however, is very unsatisfactory: many being young 
birds or having the flight feathers greatly abraded. 
Zonotrichia leucophrys gambeli (Nutt.). — The intermediate sparrow breeds 
commonly along the shores of Norton Sound in favorable localities. It is also 
abundant on Egg Island where breeding, birds were taken. A specimen in 
streaked plumage was taken at Reindeer and birds in fall plumage at Cairn. It 
was found in breeding season at Golofnin Bay. 
Zonotrichia coronata (Pall.). — The white-crowned and golden-crowned spar- 
