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protesting against the visitor. The pipit alarm note was an oft-repeated 
“ Teek !” or “Tseek!”, sharp and metallic, and it was a warning to all and 
sundry that mischief was afoot. 
6 Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka. July 17 
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Cinclus mexicanus unicolor (Bonaparte). Dipper 
Seen only once, when on a brawling brook at Taku cannery, Alaska, 
March 9, a male was singing as though he would drown the noise of the 
brook. 
Cinclus pallasii pallasii Temminck. Pallas’s Dipper. Hartert, p. 797. 
Cinclus pallasii Temminck. Man. d’Orn., 1820, p. 177. 
On a trout stream in the hills above Onuma lake near Hakodate, 
June 8, a Dipper gave a short view of himself working in the characteristic 
fashion. 
Nannus hiemalis pacificus (Baird). Western Winter Wren 
One heard in song at Taku cannery, Alaska, May 9, and heard giving 
the call-notes in the dense woods at Prince Rupert, B.C., August 17. 
Nannus meliger (Oberholser). Aleutian Wren 
The first of these wrens was met, or rather heard, at Atka island, when, 
on April 1, from a cliff at the water’s edge, came the strong, gushing song 
of the Western Winter Wren, but it was not secured. Indeed it was not 
seen, but its song is unmistakable. On April 13, at the edge of the 
big lagoon at Kuluk bay, a wren clacking noisily in the rank grass — now 
much fallen and matted by the winter’s snow — was shot. Another, not 
far away, escaped. At Attu island these wrens were more numerous than 
heretofore and several pairs were found about a rocky section of shore 
near the entrance to the bay. All these birds were paired. With the 
exception of the Adak Island birds all others inhabited the rocky ramparts 
above the shore — their neighbours being the Aleutian Song Sparrows, 
Aleutian Rosy Finches, and in some cases the Pribilof Snowflakes. 
6 Adak island, Aleutian islands. April 13 
9 Attu island, “ “ 21 
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These birds are either N . meliger or N. alascensis, which seem to differ from each other in size 
only. As the sizes seem to overlap it is difficult to see why they are given full specific distinction 
in the Check-list. Without series of each, it is difficult to judge. The question is, to which of 
these do these birds belong. By measurement they rather favour alascensis, yet geographically 
they should be meliger. They are referred tentatively to the latter form on purely geographic 
considerations. 
Sitta europaea albifrons Taczanowski. White-fronted Nuthatch. 
Hartert, p. 331. 
On July 27, at Petropavlovsk, two young of the year were found with 
a family of chickadees. “It was noted that in feeding they went down 
the birch trunks very low and disappeared in the knee-high ground cover. 
Their lisping notes were like those of kinglets and chickadees — all such 
