ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS MADE BY MR. COPLEY AMORY, JR., IN NORTHEAST-ERN SIBERIA. By J. H. Riley, Aid, Division of Birds, United States National Museum. Mr. Copley Amory, jr., accompanied the Koren Expedition to the Kolyma River region of northeastern Siberia in 1914, where the 228 specimens of birds and few sets of eggs listed in the following report were collected, and generously presented to the United States Na-tional Museum.^ TVliile the collection contains no novelities, it included a number of forms previously unrepresented in the museum, and the series of hazel grouse from the Kolyma has enabled me to describe a new form from further south.* A brief sketch of Mr. Arnory's route has already been published* iind Mr. B. Alexander, who accompanied the expedition, collecting fossils for the Smithsonian Institution, has published in the same number (pp. 31-40) an account of the country along the lower Kolyma and the Little and Big Annuj rivers, tributaries of the Kolyma. Mr. Amory, besides collecting on the two Annuj rivers, the lower Kolyma, and the coast, collected further up the Kolyma in the wooded area at Verkhni and in the foot hills of the Tomus Chaja mountains to the west of Verkhni. Mr. Koren had previously made a trip to the same region, the birds of which have been reported upon by Thayer and Bangs,* who * On his way north along the Alaskan coast Mr. Amory collected examples of the follow-ing species : Pufflnus tenuirostris (Temminck). (Bristol Bay.) Lams brachijrhynchus Richardson. (Kodiak Island.) Heteractitis incanus (Gmelin). (Kodiak Island.) Histrionicus histrionicus paciflcus Brooks. (Kodiak Island.) Passerculus sandicichensis sandtoichensis (Gmelin). (King's Cove.) Melospiza melodia insignis Baird. (Kodiak Island.) Corvus caurinus Baird. (Kodiak Island.) Pica pica hud^onica Sabine. (Kodiak Island.) " Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 29, 1916, p. 17. 3 Smiths. Misc. CoU., vol. 66, No. 3, 1916, pp. 46-51. * Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 5, April, 1914, pp. 1-48, with an outline map of the region. Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. 54— No. 2255. 607
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