1887. J PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATED NATIONAL MUSEUM. 407 



The peculiar structure of the wiug of the Yaycyama bird may, per- 

 liaps, indicate generic diifereuce from Zanthopygia, but so great is the 

 ^eueral resemblance to Z. narcissina that provisionally, at least, I refer 

 it to the same genus. 



At any rate, we have here an addition to the Japanese fauna, and it 

 will remain for future investigators to ascertain whether it belongs to an 

 undescribed species or not. 



The measurements of this interesting specimen are as follows: Wing, 

 65"""; tail feathers, 45'"'"; exposed culmen, 10'""'; tarsus, 10"""; middle 

 toe, with claw, id""™; distance between tips of longest primaries and 

 .secondaries, 14"'". 



The corresponding measurements of the young Z. narcissina, referred; 

 to above (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 91380), are : Wing, 76 ; tail feathers, 50; 

 exposed culmen, 10; tarsus, 17; middle toe, with claw, 17; distance 

 between tips of primaries and secondaries, 23'""'. 



Zanthopygia narcissina (Teiuiu.)- 



Mr. Pryer informs me that his collector obtained this species in Liu 

 Kiu during December, 1886, and January, 1887. 



Cisticola brvinniceps (Tkmm. & Schl.)- 



18'35.— Sylvia cisticola (var. jap.) Temmixck, Man. d'Oru., 2 6d., in, p. li, + p. 125. 



1847. — Salicaiia (Cisticola) hrunniceps Temmixck & Schlegel, Fauna Japou., Aves, 



p. 134, pi. XX, C— Cisticola b. EoxAPAiriE, Consp. Av., i, p. 286( 1850). — 



Blakist. & Prver, Tr. As. Soc. Jap., X, 1882, p. 157.— Seebohm, Ibis, 



1887, p. 175. — Stejneger, ZeitscLr. Ges. Ornitb., 1887, p. — . — Locustella 



I). Blakist. & Pkyer, Ibis, 1878, p. 238. 

 1S79.— Cisticola cursitans Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 37 {nee Fraxklix). — Blakist. & 



Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Jap., Viii, 1880, p. 221. — lid., ibid., x, 1S82, p. 



l.')7. 

 1883.— Cisticola cisticola Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., vii, i). 259 (part). — Seebohm, 



Ibis, 1884, p. 40.— Blakiston, Amend. List B. Jap., p. 56 (1884). 



It would seem from Mr. Seebohm's paper in the Ibis, 1887, p. 175, 

 that he now recognizes two forms of the Fan-tail Warbler as occurring in 

 Japan, a northern one, the true Cisticola cisticola, and a southern race, 

 C. h}-unniceps, diiferiug from " European examples in the color of the 

 tail." To this latter race he refers a skin from the Liu Kiu Islands, 

 obtained by Mr. Pryer, to the former, the birds from Japan proper. 



In tins I think he is wrong, for the reason that a male specimen from 

 Liu Kiu, collected on the 29th of March, which Mr. Namiye has kindly 

 ]ent me for examination, agrees in evciy respect with a summer male 

 from Tokio, coilectetk by Mr. Ota. In the coloration of the tail these 

 specimens agree perfectly with Seebohm's description of his Liu Kiu 

 specimen, and I have no doubt that these three examples represent the 

 regular male summer plumage of the Japanese bird, which should stand 

 under the name given it by Temminck and Schlegel. The European 

 bird, even the old male in summer, has never a tail colored like my 

 Japanese examples. In winter the tail is longer and the ochraceous 

 bull' space on the rectrices above the suUterminal black band is absent 

 in the Japanese birds also ; but even in this plumage it is easilj^ dis- 



