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but omitted the terminal portion of the song of that bird. 
Occasionally a small party of the Kamchatkan Titmouse 
were to be seen searching the trees for food, just like our 
own common species. A Magpie, Pica kamtschatica Stejn., 
and a Carrion-Crow, Corvus corone levaillantii (Less.), conn 
pleted the list of woodland species. About the streams or 
at the water-edge the Grey and Pied Wagtails, Motacilla 
mdanope , and probably M. lugens, were often to be seen, 
while a Sky-Lark, f Aiauda blakistoni, was obtained in the 
open country near Petropavlovsk. 
Wading birds were not numerous at Tareinski. On July 
17th I shot a young Tattler, Heteractitis incanus, a bird 
which uttered no note, and at about the same time one of 
our party saw some Whimbrels or Curlews, but on the whole 
there was quite a remarkable absence of wading birds. On 
our autumn visit to Petropavlovsk in August 1897 we added 
to the list of species obtained, securing examples of that cosmo¬ 
politan species the Turnstone, Arenaria interpres, and a 
Whimbrel, Numenius phceopus variegatus (Scop.). 
Ducks were very numerous, especially the conspicuously 
white-winged Goosander, or perhaps the Merganser, for no 
specimen was obtained, but, according to Dr. Stejneger, both 
species occur. Flocks of Wigeon, another species with 
white-barred wings, were also seen; but, strange to say, the 
only specimen which we shot, a female weighing lbs., 
proved to be an example of the American Wigeon, a stranger 
to Asia, and, I believe, the first known specimen from the 
western shores of Bering Sea. 
In 1897 we obtained specimens of a Golden-eye, the 
common Wild Duck, and Teal; while Mr. Jacobleff, an 
employee of the Russian Fur-Seal Company at Petropavlovsk, 
has since sent me specimens of the Smew and of the Harlequin 
Duck. In fact, bird-life was far more plentiful on the water 
than on shore, and, besides the Black Puffins, and the 
Guillemots, Common and Black, which fished even in the 
innermost recesses of the harbour, we had here Larus ridi- 
bundus and L. canus, so well known in England, and the 
1'acific Kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla pollicaris Stejn. Skuas, 
