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REVIEW OF JAPANESE BIRDS. 



(130.) Ciconia boyciana" Swixii. 

 Japaa Stork. Ko-ilzmiu 



1860. — Ciconia alba Schrexck, Reis. Amurl., I, p. 4.'>4 {tiec Sciiafker, IT-^O). 

 1S73.— Ciconia bojiciana SwixiiOE, P. Z. S., 1873, p. 513. — Sclater, P. Z, S., 1874, pp. 

 2, 306, pi. i.— Blakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 224.— lid., Tr. As. Soc. Jap., 

 VIII, 1880, p. 200.— lid., ibid., X, 1882, p. 121.— Blakist,, Amend. List B. 

 Jap., p. 24 (1884). 



The Stork is meutioned as a Japanese bird as early as Kauipfer, who 

 in his History of Japan (Yol. I, London, 1778, p. 129), says that the 

 "Storks stay in the country all the year round." Xo Ciconia was ob- 

 tained by any of the later Dutch travelers, and no specimen from 

 Japan seems to have come under the observation of any ornithologist 

 until Swinhoe, in 1873, described C. boyciana from two living Japanese 

 specimens. 



This bird is evidently very rare in collections, and is also wanting 

 in the Xational Museum, being one of our most important desiderata. 

 The characters of the above " key" are drawn from specimens collected 

 near Fusan, Korea, by Mr. P. L. Jouy, to whom I am indebted for the 

 privilege of examining this rare species. 



Measurements. 



Locality. 





Jouy, 1350 . . 

 Joay, 1341 . . 

 Jouy, 1356 . . 



cfaa. 

 d"ad. 



$3(1. 



Fusan, Korea I Dec. 15,1883 



do I Dec. 3,1883 



do I Dec. 21,1883 



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Family ARDEID^E. 

 Subfamily Aedein^, Herons. 



A closer study of the birds composing the present family has con- 

 vinced the present writer that it should only be divided into two sub- 

 families, the Cochleariime, the Boatbills, and the Ardciiuc, comprising 

 the Bitterns and the true Herons, which may be better treated of as 

 sections of lower rank than subfamilies, the proportionate length of 

 the inner toe and the number of tail-feathers being the most obvious 

 external characters for separating them. The Bitterns (Botaurecc) have, 

 besides, only two pair of powder-down patches, while the Herons 

 (Ardece) have three. The genus Gorsachius is often referred to the Bit- 

 terns, but in the length of the inner toe and the number of tail-feathers 

 it agrees with the Herons, and seems most nearly related to the Night- 

 Herons. As our only specimen is mounted, I have not attempted to 



* Named in honor of Mr. R. H. Boyce. 



