50 PASSERES. 



two examples in tlic Pryer collection from Yokohama (Blakiston and 

 Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 105) ; Mr. Jony obtained 

 examples (one of -wliicli I have in my collection) at Tate-yama, north 

 of Yokohama, on the autumn migration (Jouy, Proc. United States 

 Nat. Mus. 1883, p. 277) ; and there is an example in the British 

 Museum, collected by Capt. St. John at Nagasaki. It has not been 

 recorded from Yezzo. 



It breeds in Eastern Siberia, and winters in the Burma Peninsula 

 and in the islands of the Malay Archipelago. Stragglers occasionally 

 wauder to Europe. 



10. MERULA CEL^NOPS. 

 (SEVEN-ISLAND OUZEL.) 



Tardus cekenops, Stejneger, Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 484. 



The male of the Seven-Island Ouzel has a black head and neck : 

 the female resembles that of Merula chrysolaus, but the chestnut of 

 the breast and flanks is much deeper in colour. 



The Seven-Island Ouzel was originally described from the island 

 of Miaco-shima, one of the Seven Islands, about 50 miles from the 

 mainland, and about 100 miles south of Y'okohama. The types are 

 in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, and 

 there is a skin of a male in the Pryer collection. It was afterwards 

 procured by Mr. Ilolst on Fatsizio, an island about seventy miles 

 further south, and a skin of a female as well as of a male from that 

 locality arc in my collection (Seebohm, Ibis, 1890, p. 98). 



11. ERITHACUS AKAHIGE. 



(JAPANESE ROBIN.) 

 Syh-ia akahiffe, Teniminck, Planches Colorioes, no. 571 (1835). 



Tlic Japanese Robin has an orange-chestnut throat and tail. The 

 lower breast and ilanks arc grey in the male, and brown in the 

 feiniile. 



Eigiircs : Teniminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 21 b 

 (male and fcinaie). 



The Japanese Robin is not known to have occurred in Yezzo in a 



