CONTRTBTTIONS TO THE OnNTS OF SAOITALTN. 5 



comparing the above measurements with those quoted by Ogawa 

 for the hitter race in the Annotationes Zoologicae, Part IV.'^ 



Tliis subspecies has been recorded from the southern Kuriles 

 in tlie north, Iturup being especially mentioned by Blakiston and 

 Fryer ; also from Tanegashima and Yakushima in the south 

 (Ogawa), as well as from the Ussuri-country on the continent. 



In Saghalin Ijima observed solitary individuals of the 

 subspecies here and there on the coast of the Aniwa Bay. 



2. Corvus corone orientalis Eversmann. 



^louth of Susuya Eiver : 1(/, May 24. 

 Tretiya Padj : Sc/c/', May 31 ; 2c^ç^, June 18. 

 Chipesani: c/*? (j^^v.), Aug. 7; 1(/ (jav.), Aug. 16; 1?, 

 Sept. 28 ; 2d'ç^ Sept. 29. 



The size of these specimens is very variable as may be seen 

 from the followâns table : 



1) Notes on Mr. Alan Owston's Collection of Birds from the Island lying between 

 Kinshu and Formosa. Tokyo 1995. 



