492 NOTES ON JATANKSE lURDS — STEJNEGER. 



does in no particular lit T. acuiuinata, aud tbe name may safely be 

 dropped from the synonymy. 



(lOi)) Limicola platyrincha (Temm.)- 



Two specimens, Nos. 271 aud 274, $ and 9 , were collected in 18S3 at 

 Giotoku. They agree in every respect with the specimen now in the 

 U. S. National Museum (1)5055) collected by Captain lilakistonat Hako- 

 date, in August. 



(110) Calidiis areiiaiia (L.). 



A ? si)ecimen (No. 290), from Sbimosa, purchased in the flesh Feb- 

 ruary, lS8i), deserves mention, as the Sanderling is a comparatively 

 rare bird in Jai>an. 



(,111) Pavoucella piigiiax (,L.). 



The llutf is suitieiently rare in Japan to justify the record here of a 

 si)ecimen (" CC ") belonging to IMr. Ota, which was collected in the 

 province of Owari, Hondo. Two others were also sent, belonging to 

 the Science College INluseum, viz, Nos. 332 and 333, both males, col- 

 lected on October 13, the former an adult in winter plumage, at Horiye, 

 l)rovince of ]\rusashi, the latter a bird of the year, at Giotoku, prov- 

 ince of Shimosa, Hondo. The last mentioned two specimens are re- 

 ferred to by Seebohui (Ibis, 1885, p. 304). 



(112) Phalaropus lobatus (L.). 



One specimen ("B"), adult, was shot by ^Mr. Kauai, on the shore of 

 Lake Suwa, i)rovince of Shinano, May 17, 1880, out of a flock of six- 

 teen. The other (No. 1358) is a young female, obtained from Mr. F. 

 Sakamoto, in the flesh, September 27, 1890, from the province of 

 Shimosa. 



(li;?) Crymopliilus fulicarius (L.). 



" It has not yet been recorded from Japan ju'oper." Specimen " DD," 

 a winter adult, belonging to Mr. Ota, deserves therefore special men- 

 tion, it having been collected in the province ot Owari, Hondo. 



Phaethoii lubiicaiida Bonn. 



The only record of this species on Japanese teiritory is the bunch of 

 tail feathers from Bonin, in the Tokyo Museum, and the birds seen by 

 Hoist on the island San Alessandro, 40 miles north of Sulphur Island 

 (Seebohm, Ibis, 1801, p. 102). I have now before me a young speci- 

 men (Science Coll. Mus. No. 481) " captured after a storm, in 1885, in 

 the province of IMino." 



Tropic Birds can not be scarce in the seas about Japan. In Beechy's 

 voyage of the '' Blossom " it is stated (i, p. 230) that " the troi)ic birds 

 accompanied us as far as 30° N.," and v. Rlartens (Preuss. Exp. Ost.- 

 As., Zool., I, p. 59) speaks of seeing them ou September 10, iu lati- 

 tude 310. 



