LITER VTURE. 3 



iii. p. 48), " I'esp^ce est exactement la meme au Japon -" of Sylvia 

 atricapilla (Man. d'Orn. iii. p, 132), '' Habite jusqu^au Japon, ou 

 elle est absolument la meme qu'en Europe ;" of Parus cceruleus 

 (Man. crOrn. iii. p. 210), " Se trouve aussi en Moree et au Japon -/^ 

 of Perdiv rubra (Man, d^Orn. iv. p. 333), " On trouve cette espece 

 au Japon, sans qu^clle y ait eprouve la moindre difference dans les 

 formes ou la coloration du plumage j^^ of Pelecanus onocrotalus 

 (Man, d'Orn. iv. p. 560), *^Lcs sujets re9us du Japon ne different 

 point de ceux d'Europe,^' &c., &c. 



It seems probable that Temminck must have been imposed upon 

 by some fraudulent dealer, or that by some unfortunate accident in 

 the management of the Leyden Museum a number of European 

 skins were mixed with the Japanese collections. 



Temminck & Schleqel. Fauna Japonica. Aves. 1845-1850. 



This book is the standard work upon the birds of Japan. It com- 

 prises all the species that were obtained by Dr. Siebold during his 

 residence in Southern Japan from 1823 to 1830, some of which had 

 already been described in the 'Planches Coloriees.* Unfortunately, 

 no information as to the exact locality where each species was obtained 

 is given, and scarcely a word is said as to the habits of any of the 

 birds. The number of species enumerated in the ' Fauna Japonica ' 

 is 200; but after eliminating one or two obvious errors, and discard- 

 ing those which were introduced solely on the authority of Japanese 

 pictures, which may or may not have been drawn from native birds, 

 the number of species known to inhabit Japan at the date of the 

 publication of this important work is reduced to 175. This does 

 not include the birds mentioned by Pallas as found on the Kurile 

 Islands, or those discovered by Kittlitz on the Boniu Islands. 



This work was published in numbers. Parts 1 to 3, containing 

 the Raptores and Striges, were issued in 1845 (Eugelmann, Bibl. 

 Hist. Nat. p. 342), a statement confirmed by the fact that plates 8 

 and 9 and page 25 are quoted in September 1845 (Gray, Genera of 

 Birds, i. p. 38), and plate 10 in October 1845 [torn. cit. p. 39). 



Cassin. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, vi. pp. 184-188. De- 

 scriptions of New Species of Birds, specimens of which are in 

 the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia. 1852. 



In this paper nine supposed new species of birds from various 



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