REPORT OX A COLLECTION OF BIRDS MADE BY PIERRE 



LOUIS JOUY IN KOREA. 



By Austin II. Clark, 



Assistant Curator, Division of Marine Invertebrates, U. . s '. Xational Museum. 



The late Mr. Pierre Louis Jouy, during a residence of over three 

 years in Korea within the period from 1881 to 1886, brought together 

 a magnificent collection of the birds of that country, his specimens, 

 live hundred and fifty-four in number, having been taken mainly at 

 Fusan, Chemulpo, and Seoul, though a few are fromGensan. lie also 

 visited the island of Tsushima in the Korean Straits, and obtained a 

 very interesting series of the birds of that locality. This collection, 

 much the most important ever made in Korea, has never been reported 

 upon. Mr. Jouy was engaged in work upon it at the time of his death, 

 and subsequently Dr. Leonhard Stejneger made use of some of the 

 material in his studies on the avifauna of Japan. Although he pub- 

 lished comparatively little upon it, he went over the collection care- 

 fully and identified most of the species. It was suggested that, as 

 I had spent considerable time in the vicinity of the Korean coast, an 

 account of Mr. Jouy's specimens could appropriately be prepared 

 along with the account of my own observations, and I therefore spent 

 considerable time in the study of his material. This was, in the 

 main, chiefly a review of the work already done by Mr. Jouy and 

 Doctor Stejneger, and a confirmation of the results already attained 

 by them. 



A preliminary notice of the new forms which 1 detected among the 

 material studied was published in these Proceedings, vol. 32, pp. 407- 

 475. 



While this preliminary notice was in press a paper appeared 

 written by that eminent authority on Asiatic birds, Mr. Sergius A. 

 Biiturlin, of Wesenberg, Esthonia, in which certain of my new forms 

 w r ere anticipated. Mr. Buturlin has had the kindness to assist me in 

 straightening out the matter, and he has recently published a note 

 by which the confusion caused has been dispelled. I entirely agree 



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