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THE CONDOR 
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rows were to be found in any brush patch, much as in California. Young coronata 
was taken on Egg and Besboro Islands, and at Cape Denbigh. No adults were 
secured and the young show but a trace of the golden yellow at base of bill. 
Spizella monticola ochracea Brewst. — Several we.stern tree sparrows were seen 
near Cairn and one taken at Dexter, August 17. 
Junco hyemalis (Einn.). — Snow birds were seen at but one locality, the spruce 
woods near Cairn. Two were taken from a flock of a dozen adults and young. 
Melospiza cinerea (Gmel.). — The Aleutian song sparrow was abundant along 
the beach on Amaknak, early in October, feeding among the rubbish cast ashore. 
I found them unsuspicious and easily secured fifteen, during one afternoon, be- 
tween the wharf and the north end of the sand spit. Mr. A. G. Maddren of the 
steamer Corwin remarked that they were not singing so much as when he was 
here the year before. 
Passerella iliaca (Merr.). — The fox sparrow was fairly common wherever there 
was a patch of protecting brush or a grove of spruces. The species was first ob- 
served in company with Zonotrichitz among the willows about Cape Denbigh and 
was taken in the spruce woods near that point. Specimens were obtained on 
Besboro Island and in the brush near Cairn. Two young from Besboro, August 
4 still retain the first plumage on the head, neck, and upper back. A similar, 
specimen from Cairn, August 18, has the tail about one-half grown. Norton 
Sound skins do not differ from a large series of eastern winter birds in my col- 
lection. 
Hirundo erythrogastra palmeri Grinnell.^— One swallow was taken at Amak- 
nak Island, June 23. The specimen is a male and measures as follows: Wing, 
4.75; tail, 3.68; depth of fork, 1.92. A number of swallows were seen hawking 
over the flats, but were neglected as being too common! They were also observed 
at Golofnin Bay on June 28 and again at Egg Island July 9. At Cape Denbigh, 
two were seen August i. 
Tachycineta bicolor (Vieill.). — Eight tree swallows flew over the signal at 
Cape Denbigh on August 8, 
Dendroica aestiva rubiginosa (Pall.). — A single female yellow warbler taken at 
Cairn has been identified by Mr. Oberholser as of this race. The bird was shot 
on August 22 from among several others in willows near the creek. Another 
specimen was seen on Besboro Island, August 4. 
Dendroica striata (Forst.). — An immature male of this species was taken at 
Cairn, August 18. Wing, 3.15; tail, 2.15; exposed culmen, .40; tarsus, .78. It will 
be noticed that the wing is abnormally long, the measurements given by Ridg- 
way’s Manual being 2.80-2.90. This specimen was shot from the lower branches 
of a spruce and was alone so far as I could see. 
Wilsonia pusilla (Wils.). — Two warblers of this species are in the collection. A 
young bird was taken at Reindeer on August 12 and a female was shot near 
Dexter, in Golofnin Bay, six days later. 
Budytes flavus leucostriatus (Horn.). — The following notes, made June 28, at 
Golofnin Bay, refer to this species at the only time I saw it. “The country is flat 
tundra for a mile or two back from the beach and the few bushes are not over six 
or eight feet high. The first birds seen were Siberian yellow wagtails. They 
circle overhead for ten or fifteen minutes and then alight two or three hundred 
yards away. Their flight is similar to the goldfinch’s, with the waves very short 
and the direction irregular. They utter repeatedly a note not unlike tliat 01' 
Otocoris and occasionally a short pleasing twittering song, at the same time rapid- 
I. Condor IV ; p, 71. 
