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alba,lateribus crissoque pulchre castaneo-roseis I"" As be iudicates no 

 specimen the probability is, that he has only named the Sitta mentioned 

 in Temminck and Sclilegel's Fauna Japonica, which was inserted upon 

 the authority of a native drawing. The name may safely be passed 

 over as absolutely indeterminable; in fact, so far as the description is 

 concerned, it iits better Taczanowski's^>S'. haicalensis. 



As already remarked, there seems to be no reason to doubt this bird 

 being identical with true S. amurensis. 1 may mention, however, that 

 a specimen from Amur (TJ. S. Nat. Mus. No. 98.131), the only one at my 

 command, has the nasal feathers entirely black, and no trace of a whitish 

 edge to the tips of tbe greater wing-coverts, while in the Japanese 

 birds, the superficial nasal plumes are pure white, and a narrow white 

 streak runs across the wing. As the Amur specimen, however, is in 

 a somewhat abraded plumage these difference.'* may be insignificant, 

 but I should like to get information as to these features in typical 

 birds in fresh plumage. The siieciraen mentioned agrees very well with 

 the Japanese birds in regard to dimensions. 



Measurements. 



■? * 



Collector and orig- 

 inal number. 



961.51 Pryer; B., 

 91355: Jouy, 633 



91356 Jouy, 663 



91357 Jouy, 671 



91358 Jouy, 745 

 109358' 



Locality. 



ad. 



(/ad. 



cf ad. 



c/ad. 



cf ad.*j 



d ad. I 



109359] I cf ad. | 



Nikto, Hondo 



Chiusenji Lake, 

 Hondo. 



do 



do 



Tata Tama, Hondo. . 



Suruga, Hondo 



do 



Date. 



Aug 

 Aug. 



Sept. 



Sept. 



Oct 



Nov. 



Nov. 



, 1879 

 29, 1882 



4, 1882 



6, 1882 



31, 1882 



21, 1884 



23, 1884 



Average measurements of seven specimens 



80 



-3 a 



5fe 





mm. 

 22 

 22 



21 

 21 



21 



* No. 91358, judging from the colors of the under tail-coverts, and the measurements, is probably 

 Tvrongly sexed. 



In order to substantiate what has been said above concerning the 

 difference of the eastern forms from true Sitta europcea the following 

 table of dimensions is appended for comparison : 



AleasuremenfH of typical S. EUROP^A. 



