34 ART. 1.1. E. LÖNNBERG : 



The young bird shot on Aug. 16th has nearly finished the 

 mouh, but still retains some of the juvenile feathers with buff 

 shaft streaks on the head, upper back and neck)^^ The throat 

 is almost bare, but the scarlet colour shines through the sheaths 

 of the undeveloped feathers, proving that the throat assumes the 

 bright colour already in the first adult plumage. 



The young birds obtained on Aug. 8th and 9th are still in 

 the first plumage with the feathers of the head dark brown 

 with broad buff shaft-streaks, which, on the feathers of the 

 mantle, expand into large subterminal spots. Quills of the wing 

 edged with rufous brown ; greater coverts similar, but with buffisli 

 spot at the tip. A similar spot is also found at the tip of 

 innermost secondaries. 



NiKOLSKi found this fine bird very common in Saghalin. 

 So did Professor Tjima also, according to his notes. He writes 

 me : "A pair of this lovely bird inhabited the wood close to 

 the hut near Tretiya Padj during our stay there in May and 

 June. The male, perched on the top of a spruce only a few 

 feet from where my taxidermist sat at work, used to entertain us 

 every morning with his merry song." 



39. Bt'ithacns sibllans (Swinhoe). 



Vladimirofka : Ic/', June 10. 

 Tretiya Padj: Id", June 13. 



The specimens agree with the descriptions of E. sibilans, 

 but I have not had material for comparison. Nikolski reports 

 E. sibllans among the birds found by him in Saghalin and he 



1) Cjnf. Stejnegeu: Prjc U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXI, 1899. 



