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■in. Podiceps rubricollis major, T. i^ s. 



A kano(lo-kiiitsnnnn-i . 



A fine pair was f^hot .at Takeshiki, April 1st. ^[ale (with 

 chestnut tliroat) and female measure respüeti\eiy 181 mm. and 

 180 mm. in wing-, 50 mm. and 48 nmi. in exposed eulmen. 



47. Podiceps cornulus, i^hn.) 



]\Iiiui-kaitsnmiu-i. 



A specimen was only once met with and ohtained at Ina-ura, 

 Mardi 21st. It is a female in winter plumage. AVing 135 mm., 

 exposed eulmen 22 mm. 



48. Phasianus lorqualus, Gm. 



Körai-kiji. 



This is the common pheasant of Tsushima. P. versicolor is not 

 found. Three males and one female were ohtained at the villages of 

 Uchivama, Kune-inaka and Ku(a. Ft is said to he most ahundant at 

 O-ura, a village not iar from izuliara. i lia\e no continental speci- 

 mens to compai'e witli. 



In an aiitheniic inanus('ri[)t woi'k entith'd '' Tsiislilina l\.iri;aka'' 

 (^0-%^^^-> treating of the g-eogra[>]iy, liisioiy, and natural pi-oducts 

 of Tsushima, written ahout 190 years ago) l)y Suyaiua, it is stated (liat 

 j)heasants are said t(,) have been originally entirely wanting on the 

 island and to have been first introduced in the middle ages on I nijima 

 (at the northern extiemity of Tsusliima), whence they spread over the 

 island proper. In another old manuscript " TsusJiiiiia-Kiji " (j_^ ^ fg :^, 

 a voluminous work of similar natur'c and eijually aiithentie) 1)y llira- 

 yama, there stands a statement to the same ett'ect only more definite. 



