Notes on a Collection of Birds from 



Tsushima. 



by 

 Î. Ijima. 



Riéakushi, Ph. D., Ri^akuhakushi, 



With plate XII. 



The interest attacherl to the island of Tsushima,* as one of the 

 Hnks connecting the Japanese Islands with the continent, led ns to 

 send Messrs. Namiye and Tsnchida, Assistants in tlie Zoological 

 ! laboratory, Science College, to make a general reconnaissan^'e of its 

 lamia. They collected specimens at several places on the island, 

 altoo-ether from Febr. 19tb to April 7th, 1891, but ofthat time, short 

 as it was, they conld devote only a part to the work of the ornitholo- 

 o-ical collection. Nevertheless, they succeeded in acquiring 136 skins 

 of birds referable to some 48 species, a number which well attests the 

 zeal of the collectors. It is upon these specimens that I now propose 

 to make notes. 



* Tsushioia lies iu tlio Straits of Corea, between Kiushiu and the Corean peninsula. 

 Although it had been hut imperfectly explored l)y zoologists, we had long known of the existence 

 there of a species of wild-cat fonnd in no other of the Japanese islands, and of a wood-pecker, 

 Tliriiwna.v richardsi, considered to lie peculiar to that island. The occurrence there of the 

 Chinese Ring-necked Pheasant, Phasiaiius toniuntu^, not found on any of the main islands of 

 Japan, has also been recorded, but this T I:.elieve is to be regarded as an element introduced 

 from Oorea 1 ly huuian agency. 



