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ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 



billed C. japonensis ; besides, the Eastern bird seems to have tlie first 

 primary longer and the tail a trifle more rounded thau true C. corone. 



I have for comparison a skin from India, received from the Gov- 

 ernment Museum, Madras (U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 60495, $ , May 8, 18C7), 

 which i!i every particular, in size as well as in color, matches my eastern 

 specimens referred to above. It is marked C. ciiJminatus, the identifi- 

 cation being made at the Madras Museum, but that it is not the bird 

 so named by Sykes is evident from the size alone, his culminatus being 

 a considerably smaller bird. I feel, however, justified in referring this 

 bird to corone levaillantii of Sharpe's Catalogue of B. Brit. Mus., Ill, 

 p. 39,* a conclusion in which I feel the more confident as I perceive 

 that the same excellent author has identified a pair from Ussuri in the 

 British Museum (collected by Dr. Dybowski) as belonging to the species 

 in question. It is therefore apparent that Taczanowski's G. orientalis 

 of 1875 and 1870, as quoted above, belongs to the present form. "Whether 

 this name of his earlier publications relates to the same is not clear, as 

 Sharpe has been unable to separate a specimen, which the British 

 Museum received from Dr. Dybowski as C. orientalis (Balryna, E. 

 Siberia, May 18, 1872) from the true corone. It thus appears as if Tac 

 zanowski has not distinguished the two forms- 



The occurrence of levmllantii in Japan alongside the large-billed 

 C. japonensis seems to indicate that they are not geographical races of 

 the same species, but that they belong each to a different stock. 



List of specimens collected. 



Iris dark brown. Bill and feet black. 



*By a typographical error the length of the tail of levaiUanHiis given as 9.5 inches, 

 ■which is half an inch longer than the maximnm length of the table of dimensions; 

 the average length of the tail of the twenty-seven specimens is nearly 8.5 inches. 



