. The Canadian field-naturalist. 386 The Canadian Field-Naturalist Vol. 86 Additional Winter Records of the McKay's Bunting McKay's Bunting {Plectrophenax hyperboreus Ridgway) is known from only a few specimens, most of which were taken during winter in south- western continental Alaska (see Gabrielson and Lincoln, 1959). It has been collected in winter on Nunivak Island (Swarth, 1934), north to Nulato and St. Michael (Nelson, 1887) and south to Bethel (Stone, 1898), Nushagak (Osgood, 1904) and the Kuskokwim River (Grinnell, 1910). An individual was also collected on St. Paul Island of the Pri
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 386 The Canadian Field-Naturalist Vol. 86 Additional Winter Records of the McKay's Bunting McKay's Bunting {Plectrophenax hyperboreus Ridgway) is known from only a few specimens, most of which were taken during winter in south- western continental Alaska (see Gabrielson and Lincoln, 1959). It has been collected in winter on Nunivak Island (Swarth, 1934), north to Nulato and St. Michael (Nelson, 1887) and south to Bethel (Stone, 1898), Nushagak (Osgood, 1904) and the Kuskokwim River (Grinnell, 1910). An individual was also collected on St. Paul Island of the Pribilof group on 30 March 1918 (Hanna, 1920). McKay's Buntings have been observed in winter at Mountain Village (Gabrielson and Lincoln, op. cit.) and during the spring migration at Hooper Bay (Brandt, 1943). Nelson (1887:182) alluded to a specimen of the McKay's Bunting taken on Unalaska I in January, 1879; however, it was not reported by Gabrielson and Lincoln (1959) nor did Ridgway (1884) re- fer to it when he described the species based on Nelson's specimens from St. Michael and C. L. McKay's from Nushagak. Murie (1959) cited Nelson's alleged record from Unalaska Island and stated that "Without doubt, this bird is quite common on Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands in ; Although the McKay's Bunting is considered by the Check-list (1957) to breed ex- clusively on Hall and St. Matthew islands, evidence for its breeding on St. Lawrence Island (Sealy, 1967, 1969) and on St. Paul Island (Kenyon and Phillips, 1965) has recently been obtained. The purpose of the present note is to record additional winter observations and specimens of this species, some of which extend its known winter range westward to the Seward Peninsula and southward to the Alaska Peninsula (Figure 1). Data from two specimens in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California (MVZ) and from three specimens in the University of Alaska Museum of Zoology (UA) were prov
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