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he identified it Avith the Japanese species, hut doubting Teniminck's 

 assertion tliat it was a Turdus, lie decided that it must be a Holler, 

 and called it Galgulus amaurotis. Since that date the two species 

 remained confu-cd togetlier until ISS 1, when the 15onin-Island Bull)ul 

 reappeared in ornithological literature under tlic name oi Hypsipetes 

 squamiceps (Meyer, Zeitsclirift ges. Orn. i. p. 211). 



The Loo-Choo form appears comi)letely to iutergrade with the 

 typical form, from which it may be distinguished as Hyjis'i petes squa- 

 miceps pryeri. It was originally described from an example col- 

 lected by Mr. Naraiye on Okinawa-Shima, the largest of the middle 

 group of the Loo-Choo Islands, under the name of Hypsipetes pryeri 

 (Stejnegcr, Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 642). Pryer 

 described its attempts at song as an almost melodious connected 

 whistle, whilst those of its Japanese ally arc said to be most 

 discordant (Stejneger, Zcitschrift ges. Orn. 1887, p. 173). 



There are two examples of the typical form from the Bonin Islands 

 in the Pryer collection, and I have lately received twelve more from 

 the same locality collected by Mr. Hoist (Seebohm, Ibis, 1890, p. 98). 

 There are seven examples in the Pryer collection of the race which 

 inhabits the Loo-Choo Islands. 



31. HAPALOPTERON FAMILIARE. 

 (BONIN WPIITE-EYED WAKBLER.) 



Jxos familiaris, Kittlitz, Ml'hi. pros, a I'Acad. Imp. des Sciences do St. P^ters- 

 bourg, par divers savans, If^OO, p. 23o. 



The Bonin White-eyed Warbler has a round wing with large first 

 primary. Upper parts olive, underparts yellow, a ring of white 

 feathers round the eye; lores yellow; forehead and superciliary 

 stripe black ; ear-coverts black on anterior half, yellow on posterior 

 half. 



Figures: Kittlitz, Mem. pres. i\ PAcad. Imp. dcs Sciences de St. 

 Pctcr-sb. par divers savans, 1830, pi. 13. 



The Bonin White-eyed Warbler was discovered in 1828 by Kittlitz, 

 and remained unknown until it was rediscovered in 1889 by Mr. 

 Hoist (Seebohm, Ibis, 1890, p. 100). The only record that I can 

 find of any example having l)een seen between these dates is that of 

 two live birds in the National Museum at Tokio (iJlakiston and 

 Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Jaj)an, 1882, p. 138, no. 180^). I have twelve 



