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possibly only a temporary oue, but it is the only appellation which at 

 present I know to be pertinent. Whether the Indian bird usually 

 called C. poUocephalus really is identical with the Japanese one is a 

 question I am not prepared to answer for want of material for com[)ar- 

 ison, but I do know that Latham's description is entirely inapplicable 

 to the present bird,* and that the name given by him consequently 

 must be rejected according to all accepted rules of nomenclature. 



Halcyon pileata (Bodd.). 



Dr. Ijima writes me that the Science College Museum has recently 

 obtained, through Mr. Ota, a specimen of this beautiful kingfisher cap- 

 tured in the province of Suruga, a most interesting addition to the fauna. 

 Ue adds tluit in tlie old Japanese manuscripts on ornithology' he tinds 

 the "description of a kingfisher larger than the common species, but 

 resembling it and very beautiful, and said to be common in the valleys 

 of the provinces of Hiuga and Bingo, though not found north of 

 Hakone." He has no doubt that H. pileata is meant and not H. coro- 

 ma7ida, as the latter is also described. 



(167) Dryobates japonicus (Seeb.)- 



No. 1089 is a young male, from the province of Suruga, Hondo, a 

 little older than U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 88704 (the young female described 

 by me in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 188G, p. 112), which it reseojbles very 

 closely except that the whole crown has the feathers broadly tipped 

 with scarlet, the black patch on the sides of neck in continuation of the 

 malar 8trii)e is larger and more solid black, and the spots and bars on 

 the sides of breast and flanks less pronounced. 



(172) Picus cauus jessoeusis Stejn. 



No. 1438, locality unknown, is a very young specimen in the first 

 plumage. It is similar to the adult female, but witli the top of head 

 and upper neck duller, and the light markings on wings and tail larger 

 and more ])ronounced; underside from breast backwards strongly cross- 

 marked with dusky. 



(230i) Motacilla flava leucostriata (IIgm.)- 



A young specimen (No. 1378) was collected by Mr. Tsuchida at Do- 

 kanyama, near Tokyo, on November 3, 1890. It is the first occurrence 

 of this species in any of the islands of Japan proper. 



(•26:U) Turdiis hortulorum SCL. 



By an examination of the specimen in the Museum of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, as well as the origiual records in 

 the U. S. National Museum of the specimens brought home by the 



* "Tail almost eveu at the end ; white, crossoil with equidistant dusky bars; legs 

 pale hrown." (Suppl., i, p. 102.) 



