320 Capt. Blakiston on the Ornithology of Northern Japan. 



TuRDUS AMAUROTis (Temm. & Scb].). Orpheus amaurotis 

 (Faun. Jap. p. 68, pi. xxxi. 6). 



Several examples of this bird were brought me by a native 

 birdcatcher, at the end of October, as I was on the point of leaving 

 Hakodadi. I had not observed it earlier in the season, and 

 presume that it summers further north. A female specimen 

 was preserved. 



On two or three occasions I observed a Dipper in the moun- 

 tain streams which abound in the country near Hakodadi, Mr. 

 Maximovitch obtained a specimen, and calls it Cinclus pallasii 

 of the ' Fauna Japonica.' 



Regulus japonensis, Bp. 



A specimen, sex unknown, was obtained from a birdcatcher 

 at the end of October. It hardly differs from the European 

 R. auricapillus, except in being rather whiter over the eyes and 

 on the face. 



Mr. Maximovitch obtained a species of Wren, which he placed, 

 under the name of Troglodytes vulgaris, as doubtful ; and I my- 

 self observed a couple of birds in general appearance like that 

 species, but I was without a gun at the time. 



the younger birds. In the adult Turdus naumanni, the throat is red, with 

 a few black streaks just apparent; in Turdus fuscutus (see the figiu-e in 

 Gould's ' Birds of Asia,' part iv.), the throat is white. In the young of both 

 species the throat is thickly striated with triangular blackish markings. But 

 it is only necessary to refer to the figures and descriptions given in the new 

 volume of ' Naumanu ' to convince oneself of the diversity of these two 

 birds. Mr. Swiuhoe's " Red-tailed Field-fare " (Ibis, 1861, p. 332) is pro- 

 bably the true Turdus naumanni, and that name is a very good one for this 

 bird, as having the rectrices more or less bright red in all its stages. The 

 accompanying plate (Plate X.) represents an adult male of Turdus naumanni 

 in full plumage. The specimen figured was shot near Shanghai, in March 

 1850, and is now in Mr. Gould's collection. We have been induced to 

 figure it, because Dr. Bree has altogether omitted the bird in his ' History 

 of the Birds of Europe not observed in the British Isles,' although 

 Dr. Blasius tells us he had fourteen examples of various ages and plumages 

 for comparison, from various museums in Germany and Hungary, and that 

 the bird often occurs in the Carpathians, and is not unfrequently brought 

 into the market as " game" at Pesth and Vienna. The specimen figured by 

 Dr. Bree under the name Turdus naumanni appears to be a young Turdus 

 fuscatus, though we are not informed whence the figure was taken. — Ed. 



