46 ART. 14. — E. LÖNNBERG 



Ô5. Cuculns ccmoriis Linné. 



Tretiya Padj : 1?, May 30; 2(^0^, June 10; Ic/, June 14. 

 Vladimirofka : 1 $ , June 3. 

 Khomatofka : 2ö^cr^, June 14. 

 1 specimen without label. 



The length of wing in these specimens is, in the order of 

 above enumeration, as follows : 223, 215, 229, 210, 217, 222, 

 219 and 216 mm. The variability in size is thus as great as in 

 European specimens, from which the Saghalin birds do not differ 

 to any considerable degree nor by any constant character. The 

 dark transverse bars of the lower parts are sometimes broader 

 and sometimes narrower ; their number is often restricted to about 

 16 or less. 



56. Cuculus saturatus Hodgson. 



Tretiya Padj : Ic/', May 30. 



Yankenai (Terpenia coast) : 1 specimen (unsexed) in rufous 



phase, June 29. 

 Troitskœ : 1?, June 11. 



Length of wing about 195 mm. 



NiKOLSKi has recorded only the Common Cuckoo from 

 Saghalin, but it is highly probable that this cuckoo also breeds 

 there. Professor Ijima writes me that, during his sojourn in 

 the neighbourhood of Tretiya Padj in the latter part of May and 

 in June, he used to hear daily the unmistakeal)le notes of this 

 bird, which sounds like " pon-pon, pon-pon." 



