Birds observed in Kamchatka. 291 
•July 17, 1896. Colour of bill, eyelids, and interior of mouth 
crimson; of iris brown; of legs and feet crimson brick ; 
of claws brown. 
No. 13. ¥ , Ivaraga Village, August 21, 1897. Colour 
of bill, eyelids, and interior of mouth dull red (duller than 
the legs and feet) ; of iris brown; of legs aud feet blood- 
red, exactly the colour of the bird's own blood. 
The bill and feet seem to fade rapidly in the autumn. 
Dr. Stejneger notes an adult female obtained at Petro- 
pavlovsk, on September 18, 1883, in which the bill was 
pale salmon-red, with the tip in front of the nostrils dark 
brownish, and the feet and webs similarly coloured. On the 
other hand, an adult female obtained in the same locality 
on September 28th, 1883, had the bill and feet vermilion, 
the former somewhat dusky towards the tip. 
Sterna camtschatika Pallas. [S. longipennis Nordm.] 
No. 14. $ nearly adult?, Petropavlovsk, August 28,1897. 
Colour of bill dark horn, tinged with red, the red appearing 
especially at the base of the lower mandible; of interior of 
mouth light red ; of legs deep red ; of claws dark. 
No. 15. $ juv., Petropavlovsk, autumn of 1897 ( Mr . 
Jacobleff). 
No. 16. ¥ juv., same date and locality. Colour of bill 
redder and lighter than in the older specimen (no. 14); of 
legs yellowish red. 
Stejneger cites this species as not very numerous, although 
he found it both in May and autumn at the mouths of the 
rivers falling into Avacha Bay. 
There is some question as to the colour of the feet of 
this Tern. Mr. Howard Saunders, who (Brit. Mus. Cat. 
vol. xxv. p. 68) says that they are “ blackish," had evidently 
only dried skins before him, for Dr. Stejneger gives the 
colour of the legs of two adult females as “ blackish red " 
and “dark reddish brown," a description which agrees so 
closely with my own that Dr. Stejneger would appear rather 
in the light of a hair-splitter when, in a review of my 
friend Mr. A. H. Evans's f Birds,' he corrects the author for 
