498 NOTES ON JAPANESE BIRDS — STEJNEGER. 



reliance cau not be placed in his statement, though I see no reason why such a bird 

 should have been imported to Japan either as skin or in the living state. 



As this species is found in Korea, its occasional occurrence in Japan is 

 not improbable, thoujjh additional evidence is necessary to establish it 

 as an undoubted member of the fauna. 



Munia atricapilla (Vieill.). 



A specimen (!N"o. "G") is among the birds sent, but it evidently either 



introduced or perhaps only an escaped cage bird. However, Dr. Ijima 



writes in regard to it as follows : 



A pair of this species was captured in the vicinity of Lake Suwa, in the province 

 of Shiuauo, August, 18S5. One escaped, and the other died after a few days' cap- 

 tivity. The latter was skinned by Mr. Kanai, and is the bird marked " G." I can not 

 entirely suppress a doubt that the specimen is an escaped cage bird. Mr. Kanai, 

 however, tells me that this year another specimen was obtained in the same locality. 



It may be that the specimens in question are part of a colony origi- 

 nating from escaped cage birds. 



The bird before me has the entire head and neck deep black with a 

 greenish gloss; upper parts pale cinnamon-chestnut, deepening into 

 burnt Sienna on the rump and upper tail-coverts; tail above edged with 

 dull rufous orange ; under parts bright chestnut-bay gradually darken- 

 ing into blackish on middle of abdomen and under tail-coverts ; under 

 wing-coverts cream color, the larger and median series dull cinnamon- 

 rufous. 



