ON A COLLECTION OP BIRDS MADE BY MR. M. NAMIYE, IN THE 

 ISLANDS OF IDZU, JAPAN. 



Bt liEONIIARD STEJi^EOER. 



Thanks to the untiring zeal of the authorities of the Tokio Educa- 

 tional Museum, we are again in the position to report upon an interest- 

 ing collection of birds from some of the outlying islands of Japan hith- 

 erto entirely unexplored. 



Daring the months of April and May of the present year, Mr. M. 

 Namiye paid a short visit to the islands of Idza, also called Shitshi To, 

 or the Seven Islands (not to be confounded with the Linschoten Archi- 

 pelago, which also bears the same name). These islands are situated 

 just south of Yokohama, the principal islands from north to south be- 

 ing named as follows: Oshima, or Vries Island; Toshima; Niishima, or 

 Shinshima; Kodzushima, or Kamitsushima; Miyakeshima (not to be 

 confounded with Miyakoshima, one of the principal isli\uds of the South- 

 ern Liu Kiu group); Mikurashima; and Hachijoshima, or Fatsidjioshi- 

 ma. On account of the short stay at each island Mr. Kamiye was un- 

 able to exhaust the ornis, but the collection is a most interesting one 

 notwithstanding. It was hardly to be expected that this group of small 

 islands, situated so near the main island, should yield any new species. 

 Mr. Namiye's discovery of the very distinct new thrush, which we have 

 named Turdus cekenops, is therefore the more surprising and gratify- 

 ing. It is one of the most interesting of tbe many novelties for which 

 we have to thank this gentleman. 



The numbers in parentheses refer to Blakiston and Fryer's Catalogue 

 of the Birds of Japan. 



1. (7) SynthliboramiDhus wumizusume (Temm.). 



S ad., Kodzushima, April 28, 1887. Mr. Kamiye writes that it is 

 commmon on that island, and breeds on the cliflFs. The specimen is in 

 very worn i^lumage and was evidently breeding. (U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 



miss.) 



2. (65) Larus crassirostris Vieill. 



No specimen sent. " Numerous on Kodzushima. It breeds on the rock 

 called 'Onbashi' (probably Ontsi SLima of Hassenstein's map), which 

 is situated two miles southwest of Kodzushima" (Namiye). 



3. (129) Gorsachius goisagi (Temm.). 



No specimen sent. Mr. Namiye writes that he found it on Oshima 

 and Miyakeshima. 



4. (159) Turtur galastis (Temm.). 



$ ad., Hachijoshima, May 8, 1887. Typical. " Abundant on all the 

 islands" (Namiye). "Total length, 345™'"; stretch of wings, 500"""." 

 (U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 111057.) 



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