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 November, t9o2. [ THE CONDOR t43 rows were to be found in any brush patch, much as in California. Young coronals was taken on Egg and Besboro Islands, and at Cape Denbigh. No adults were secured and the young show hut a trace of the golden yellow at base of bill. Spizella monticola ochracea Brewst.--Several western tree sparrows were seen near Cairn and one taken at Dexter, August t7. Junco hyemalis (Linn.).mSnow 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 Zonotrichite 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 rS, 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.x--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, L92. A number of swallows were seen hawking over the fiats, but were neglected as being too common! They were also observed at GoPofnin Bay on June 28 and again at Egg Island July 9- At Cape Denhigh, two were seen August L Tachycineta bicolor (Vieill.).--Eight tree swallows flew over the signal at Cape Denhigh on August 8. Dendroica astiva 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-*2 from among several others in willows near the creek. Another specimen was seen on Besboro Island, August 4. Dendroica striata (Forst.).--An insmature male of this species was taken at Cairn, August 8. Wing, 3.5; tail, 2.5; 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 pusilia (Wils.).--Two warblers of this species are in the collection. A young bird was taken at Reindealt on August r2 and a female was shot near Dexter, in Golofnin Bay, six days later. Budytes flayus leucostriatus (Hom.).--The following notes, made June 28, at Golofnin Bay, refer to this species at the only time I saw it. "The country is fiat tundra for a mile or two back from the beach and the few bushes are m;t 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 that ,i' Otocoris and occasionally a short pleasing twittering song, at the same time rapid- 1. CONDOR IV; p. 7 I.