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REVIEW OF JAPANESE BIRDS. 



Mr. P. L. Jouy has kiudly furnished me wi:h the following color 

 notes on the specimen which he collected: 



U. S. Xat. Mils. Xo. 9148G, F. L. Jouy, Xo. 9;?3: "Lores, forehead, aud chin orange 

 vermilion, color lighter on the chin, intensified around the base of Mil ; eyelid 

 golden yellow ; iris orange ; bill black mottled with red at the tips of both mandibles, 

 nail yellow ; nasal grooves red ; tarsi, toes, and naked tibiic light red." 



Aleasurements. 



I have added the measurements of a male collected by Mr. Jouy near 

 Fusan, Korea, in order to show the dimensions of the male. This spec- 

 imen has a rather slight crest, but the red glow is more vivid than in 

 the other two specimens; the two outer primaries, however, are still 

 dusky for the greater extent, while the following ones are more or less 

 mottled with dusky toward the tips. The fresh colors of the naked 

 parts noted by Mr. Jouy are as follows: "Iris (faded) light sienna; 

 bill black, tip scarlet ; naked face-skin scarlet vermilion; tarsus and 

 toes dull red." 



IBIS Lacep. 



1790.— Ibis Lacep^de (type, as restricted by Illiger, 1811, I. aetliiopicus Lath.). 

 1842.— Threskiornis Gray, App. List Gen. B., p. 13 (same type). 

 1855. — Thereschioniis Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 290 (emend.). 



(1-26.) Ibis propinqua SwixH. 



Black-headed Ibis. Kuro-toki. 



ISm.— Threskioniis meJanocephaliis ? Swixuue, P. Z. S., 1863, p. 318 (nee Lath. ?).— 

 Elliot, Ibis, 1877, p. 488 (part). 



1&70.— Ibis propinqua SwiXHOE, P. Z. S,, 1870, p. 428.— Blak. & Pryer, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 223.— lid., Tr. As. Soc. Jap., VIII, 1880, p. 198.— /((7., ibid. , X, 1882, p. 117.— 

 Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 35.— Blakist., Amend. L. B. Jap., pp. 24, 40 (1884). 



Both Elliot and Reichenow, in their monographs, unite Ibis propinqua 

 with I. melanocephalus (Lath.), but neither of them seems to have ex- 

 amined specimeus of the former, I, therefore, retain Swinhoe's name» 

 for the present at least, especially since Mr. Seebohm has pronounced 

 Blakiston and Fryer's identification of the Japanese specimen as 

 J. propinqua to be correct without suggesting its identity with J. mda^ 

 noceplialus. But being without specimens of either species I am at 

 present unable to give any description of the former or to point out 

 the differences between the two supposed species. 



