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Measurements. — Wing-, lOo™""; tail-feathers, 51™™; exposed cul- 

 meu, 23™™; tarsus, 39™™; middle toe, with claw, 4G™™. 



Habitat. — Yayeyama Island, Liu Kin, Japan. 



Type.— U. S. Nat. Mns., Ko. 11097G. 



Althongh very closely allied to P. enjthrothora.i\ tbe present form may 

 be easily distiugnished by tbe above diagnosis. In size it compares 

 favorably with the typical Japanese bird, althougli the wing is slightly 

 shorter, but the bill is apparently somewhat larger (cf. Table of Dimen- 

 sions of four P. erytlirothorax in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus , 1886, ji. 399). 

 It is consequently much larger than the Philippine Islands species 

 P.fusca, from which it also ditfers in coloration in the same manner as 

 it differs from P. erythrotJiorax, though equaling it in the richness of 

 the vinaceous rufous of the jugulum and breast ; in the new species the 

 chin and throat are white, however, like the Japanese birds. None of 

 my specimens of the latter or of P.fusca show any trace of the whitish 

 marks on the alula and first primary so conspicuous in the type speci- 

 men of the present species. If this character be constant it makes the 

 identification of P. phccopyga a very easy matter indeed. 



The addition of this novelty necessitates the rearrangement of the 

 *' Synopsis of the Japanese species of the genus Forzana,^^ as given by 

 me in my "Review"' (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, p. 396). The section 

 affected by this addition may be changed to read as follows : 



c'. Back and upper wiug-covcrts brown, with black and white longitudinal markings 



{Zapornia) P. intermedia. 



<€'-. Back and upper wing-coverts uniform olive brown, without any kind of markings 

 {Limnoljwnus). 

 dK Outer web of first primary uniform dusky ; lower back and rump pale olive sepia; 

 under wing-coverts brownish drab with whitishmarkings.. ..P. erythrothorax. 

 d". Outer web of first primary, with whitish spots; lower back and rump oliva- 

 ceous clove-brown; under wing-coverts brownish black witli whitish mar- 

 gins P. phocopyfja 



iuryzona sepiaria, sp. nov. 



Diagnosis. — Upper surface of a saturated olivaceous brown, darken- 

 ing towards the tail, and becoming lighter as it descends on the fore- 

 neck which is of a pale olivaceous sepia; chin and throat whitish; 

 under wing-coverts, abdomen, tibiaj, and under tail-coverts black, 

 broadly banded with white; remiges with trace of white cross-bars at 

 the base of inner webs only. 



DoiENSiONS.— Wing, 152™™; tail-feathers, 63™™; exposed culmeu, 

 30™™; tarsus, 46™™; middle toe, v/ith claw, 43™™. 



Habitat. — Yayeyama Island, Liu Kin Prefecture, Japan. 



Type.— U. S. Nat, Mus., No. 110975. 



This large and handsome species of Pail is an addition to the Japanese 

 fauna not anticipated in my " Review "; even the genus was not men- 

 tioned there, as no representative of it had been taken north of the 

 Philippine Islands. In order to bring the synopsis up to date, I give 



