496 NOTES ON JAPANESE BIRDS STEJNEGER. 



" Perry Expedition to Japan," I feel convinced that the specimen re- 

 ferred to by Mr. Seebohm (P. Z. S., 1879, p. 805 ; B. & P.,Tr. As. Soc. 

 Jap., X, 1882, p, 166) did not come from Japan. 



The species will have to be retained, however, in the Japanese fanna on 

 the strength of a specimen in the Science College Museum (No. 1365), 

 which was collected in the province of Kaga, Hondo. It is a fully 

 adult female (not sexed on label) in very good condition. 



The brackets inclosing the reference to the present species in my 

 synopsis of the Japanese species of the genus Turdus (Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1887, p. 4) can now be removed. 



(235) Cisticola brunniceps (T. & S.). 



A winter specimen from Nagoya, Hondo (No. " D"j, bears out fully 

 what I have already remarked about this species (Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 1887, p. 407). I have found the wing of a remarkably uniform size in 

 all the Japanese specimens measured by me, and the present one makes 

 no exception : wing 55 millimetres, tail feathers 54 millimetres. 



Emberiza leucocephala Gm. 



Mr. Nozawa has added one of the most interesting novelties to the 

 Japanese avifauna by collecting a splendid pair of this fine bird, which 

 were shot out of a small flock at Sapporo, Yezo, on January 30, 1890. 

 The $ is No 1188 of the Science College Museum ; the $ is designated 

 as No. "A." 



The present species, which occurs all through Siberia, has no yellow 

 anywhere, and, like E. rustica, has the rump cinnamon-rufous without 

 black streaks, being easily distinguished, however, in all plumages by 

 its large size (wing more than 85 millimetres) ; the male is a very strik- 

 ing looking bird, with the fore-neck and eye-region beautiful chestnut 

 and the cheeks silky white. 



Emberiza pusilla Pall. 



This addition is to be credited to Mr. Ota, who, in his collection, nas 

 a specimen collected atNagoya, Owari, Hondo. It is marked " F," but 

 the label contains no other information. Further details regarding the 

 capture of this interesting specimen are desirable. The bird is a young 

 male, or an adult female, in spring plumage. 



This is another Siberian species. As the name implies, it is very 

 small (wing of present specimen 67 millimetres). The rump is dark clay 

 colored, somewhat streaked with dark brown; the upper lesser wing- 

 coverts are edged with drab ; culmen straight ; no yellow anywhere. 



(277) Emberiza yessoensis Swinh. 



There are three specimens in this collection; one. No. '' E," belonging 

 to Mr. Ota, collected at Nagoya, Owari ; another adult ( 5 ) in tine plum- 

 age, collected by Dr. Ijima near Tokyo, November 22, 1890 (Sc. Coll. 

 No. 1384) ; and finally a young male (No. 1377), collected at Waseda, 

 Tokyo, by Mr. Makino, about the middle of October, 1890. 



